Q-BRIDGE-MIB

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Organization: IETF Bridge MIB Working Group

Last Updated: 2006-01-09

Category: VLAN and Bridging

Description: Defines managed objects for managing IEEE 802.1Q VLAN-aware bridges, including VLAN configuration, port VLAN membership, and VLAN forwarding database entries.

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What Is Q-BRIDGE-MIB?

Q-BRIDGE-MIB is an IETF standards-track module (RFC 4363) that extends the base BRIDGE-MIB to manage IEEE 802.1Q VLAN-aware Ethernet switches. It exposes VLAN configuration tables, per-port VLAN membership and tagging/untagging behavior, and the VLAN-aware MAC forwarding database (FDB) that maps learned addresses to ports within each VLAN. Because it reports live FDB entries, port VLAN state, and VLAN-related counters, it is well suited to monitoring the hardware/software status of a switch's Layer 2 forwarding plane in real time. It depends on BRIDGE-MIB for base bridge/port definitions and is commonly deployed alongside P-BRIDGE-MIB and RMON2-MIB on the same switch, and any network monitoring tool that implements the q-bridge-mib standard can walk these tables directly for vendor-neutral VLAN visibility.

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Supported Devices

  • IEEE 802.1Q VLAN-aware Ethernet switches and bridges (vendor-neutral, standards-based MIB, not tied to a specific manufacturer)

Monitoring Examples

For example, a network admin can poll dot1qVlanFdbId and the associated FDB table to confirm a device is correctly learning MAC addresses on a given VLAN, or check port membership objects to catch a misconfigured trunk that is dropping traffic. Specifically, the dot1qTpFdbTable (indexed by dot1qFdbId and dot1qTpFdbAddress) reports which dot1qTpFdbPort a given MAC was learned on and whether its status is learned, self, mgmt, or other, letting a monitoring system flag stale or unexpected entries. The dot1qPortVlanTable's dot1qPvid and dot1qPortAcceptableFrameTypes objects reveal each port's native VLAN and tagging policy, so a sudden PVID change can be alerted on as a potential misconfiguration or intrusion. Per-VLAN, per-port counters such as dot1qTpVlanPortInFrames and dot1qTpVlanPortOutFrames also let a monitoring tool correlate traffic anomalies with a specific VLAN/port pair instead of the whole switch.

What Can Be Monitored

  • VLAN forwarding database (FDB) entries / learned MAC addresses per VLAN
  • Port VLAN membership and native VLAN (PVID)
  • Port frame acceptance policy (tagged-only, admit-all, GVRP-registered)
  • Per-VLAN, per-port ingress/egress frame counters
  • GVRP/GARP VLAN registration status
  • Number of VLANs configured vs. maximum supported
Imported Objects

From BRIDGE-MIB

dot1dBasePortOBJECT-TYPE
dot1dBasePortEntryOBJECT-TYPE
dot1dBridgeMODULE-IDENTITY

From P-BRIDGE-MIB

EnabledStatus

From RMON2-MIB

TimeFilter

From SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB

SnmpAdminString

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter32
Counter64
Integer32
MODULE-IDENTITY
OBJECT-TYPE
TimeTicks
Unsigned32

From SNMPv2-TC

MacAddress
RowStatus
TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
TruthValue
OIDs

RFC description

Defines managed objects for bridges with traffic classes, multicast filtering, and Virtual LAN (VLAN) extensions as standardized in RFC 4363, covering port-based and protocol-based VLAN membership, VLAN classification, restricted VLAN registration, and IEEE 802.1Q-compliant virtual bridged local area network management.

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