PW-ENET-DRAFT05-MIB

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Organization: IETF PWE3 Working group

Last Updated: 2004-06-10

Description: IETF PWE3 draft MIB for managing Ethernet point-to-point pseudo-wire services over packet-switched networks, including VLAN configuration and per-VC traffic counters

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What Is PW-ENET-DRAFT05-MIB?

PW-ENET-DRAFT05-MIB is an IETF PWE3 (Pseudo-Wire Emulation Edge-to-Edge) draft standard MIB for managing Ethernet point-to-point pseudo-wire services carried over a Packet-Switched Network (PSN) such as MPLS. It exposes configuration data for Ethernet pseudo-wire virtual circuits, including VLAN tagging/configuration parameters, and per-virtual-circuit traffic counters. It supports monitoring of the pseudo-wire service's software/protocol state -- specifically per-VC packet and byte counters plus VLAN configuration -- which operators use to verify an Ethernet pseudo-wire is correctly forwarding traffic end-to-end and to detect a VC that has gone down or is dropping traffic. As a PWE3 draft MIB, it depends on and complements the broader Pseudo-Wire MIB framework (e.g., PW-MIB, PW-TC-MIB) for generic pseudo-wire management, plus MPLS/PSN tunnel MIBs for the underlying transport. It is deployed by carriers and service providers offering Carrier Ethernet or Ethernet-over-MPLS pseudo-wire services to interconnect customer Ethernet segments across a packet-switched core. Engineers implementing or auditing this functionality typically reference the PW-ENET-DRAFT05-MIB RFC/standard documentation for the authoritative specification.

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Supported Devices

  • vendor-neutral, standards-based IETF MIB; applies to carrier/service-provider routers and switches supporting Ethernet pseudo-wire (PWE3) services

Monitoring Examples

No object names were available for this module, but a realistic scenario would involve polling per-virtual-circuit traffic counters and VLAN configuration objects for an Ethernet pseudo-wire to confirm packets are being forwarded and the correct VLAN tag handling is applied end-to-end; a VC showing zero incrementing counters despite the far end reporting traffic sent would indicate a pseudo-wire forwarding fault within the PSN core.

What Can Be Monitored

  • Ethernet pseudo-wire VLAN configuration
  • per-virtual-circuit packet counters
  • per-virtual-circuit byte counters
  • pseudo-wire operational status
Imported Objects

From IF-MIB

InterfaceIndexOrZero

From PW-DRAFT05-MIB

pwVcIndexOBJECT-TYPE

From PW-TC-DRAFT05-MIB

PwVcIndexType
PwVcVlanCfg
pwStdMIBOBJECT-IDENTITY

From RMON2-MIB

ZeroBasedCounter32

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

MODULE-IDENTITY
OBJECT-TYPE

From SNMPv2-TC

RowStatus
StorageType
OIDs

RFC description

Pseudo-wire Ethernet draft MIB (RFC 4719 related); manages Ethernet pseudo-wire circuit emulation over MPLS.

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