PW-MPLS-DRAFT06-MIB

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Organization: Pseudo Wire Edge to Edge Emulation (PWE3) Working Group

Last Updated: 2004-06-13

Description: IETF PWE3 draft-06 MIB for pseudo-wire virtual circuits carried over MPLS, binding PW VCs to MPLS tunnels and LDP sessions on MPLS-enabled routers

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What Is PW-MPLS-DRAFT06-MIB?

PW-MPLS-DRAFT06-MIB is an early IETF PWE3 (Pseudo-Wire Emulation Edge-to-Edge) working-group draft MIB, part of the MPLS/pseudowire networking technology area, intended to complement the base PW-MIB by covering pseudowire operation specifically over MPLS transport. As a draft with no retrievable object content in this batch, its documented scope covers binding pseudowire virtual circuits to MPLS tunnels and LDP sessions on MPLS-enabled routers. Its intended monitoring value would be pseudowire/MPLS tunnel operational status rather than physical hardware -- confirming a PW's underlying MPLS label switched path and LDP session are established and healthy. It is explicitly a companion/dependency of the base PW-MIB (and by extension MPLS-LDP-related MIBs), since it only adds the MPLS-specific binding objects. It would be deployed on MPLS provider-edge routers offering pseudowire (Layer 2 VPN) services, though as a superseded draft it is more likely encountered as a legacy/historical MIB than in current production networks. Engineers can download the PW-MPLS-DRAFT06-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

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Supported Devices

  • MPLS provider-edge routers offering pseudowire/L2VPN services

Monitoring Examples

A network engineer would have used this MIB's MPLS-binding objects (superseded later by PW-MPLS-STD-MIB's pwMplsTable) to associate a pseudowire's forwarding path with a specific MPLS tunnel and LDP session on a PE router. Because this is a pre-standard draft, most modern deployments have migrated to the RFC-based PW-MPLS-STD-MIB, so encountering this MIB in the field would typically indicate legacy router firmware. Any monitoring would have focused on confirming the PW-to-LDP-session binding remained active and had not fallen back to a down state.

What Can Be Monitored

  • pseudowire-to-MPLS-tunnel binding
  • LDP session association
  • pseudowire operational status
Imported Objects

From IF-MIB

InterfaceIndexOrZero

From MPLS-LSR-STD-MIB

MplsIndexType

From MPLS-TC-STD-MIB

MplsLdpIdentifier
MplsLsrIdentifier
MplsTunnelIndex
MplsTunnelInstanceIndex

From PW-DRAFT05-MIB

pwVcIndexOBJECT-TYPE

From PW-TC-DRAFT05-MIB

PwVcIndexType
pwStdMIBOBJECT-IDENTITY

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

MODULE-IDENTITY
OBJECT-TYPE
Unsigned32

From SNMPv2-TC

StorageType
OIDs

RFC description

Pseudowire over MPLS management objects from IETF draft specification (draft-06), defines control and status objects for MPLS-based pseudowire services.

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