RC-IP-MIB

MIB Reference — IPNetwork Monitor · Updated September 14, 2026

All MIBsRC-IP-MIB

Organization: Bay Networks, Rapid-City Group

Last Updated: 2009-04-08

Category: Nortel Enterprise Data

Description: Manages IP interface configuration, routing tables, and address management on Bay Networks Rapid-City series switches.

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What Is RC-IP-MIB?

RC-IP-MIB is an enterprise MIB from Bay Networks/Nortel for the Accelar (Rapid-City/Passport) family of Layer 3 switches, managing IP interface configuration, routing-protocol enablement, and address assignment on each router interface. It exposes per-interface configuration objects covering default-route advertisement/acceptance, RIP/OSPF/IGMP enable flags, DHCP relay, address-assignment method, and triggered-update behavior, plus RSMLT (Routing Switch Multi-Link Trunking) redundancy objects. In monitoring terms it is used primarily to verify the software configuration state of routing features per interface - confirming which routing protocols are active on a given interface, whether an IP address was statically or DHCP-assigned, and whether Layer 3 redundancy (RSMLT) is correctly enabled - rather than reporting physical hardware sensor data. Because this legacy module is rarely bundled with modern tooling, engineers often load it into an RC-IP-MIB MIB Browser to inspect the rcIpConfTable structure and object semantics before scripting polls. It is a vendor extension MIB layered on top of standard IP-MIB and RIP2-MIB concepts, adapting them to Bay Networks' Accelar switch architecture. It would be deployed in legacy Bay Networks/Nortel Accelar (Passport) Layer 3 switch installations for campus or enterprise routing.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in RC-IP-MIB. Use the built-in SNMP Monitoring Browser to explore available variables, view their current values and descriptions, and select the objects you want to monitor. You can then create SNMP monitors, configure thresholds, and receive alerts when monitored values change.

Supported Devices

  • Bay Networks/Nortel Accelar (Rapid-City/Passport) Layer 3 switch (per-interface IP/routing-protocol configuration)

Monitoring Examples

An admin would poll rcIpConfTable/rcIpConfEntry indexed by rcIpConfIfIndex to check per-interface flags like rcIpConfRipEnable, rcIpConfOspfEnable, and rcIpConfIgmpEnable, verify rcIpConfDhcpEnable and rcIpConfAddrAssigned to confirm how the interface obtained its address, and check rcIpConfRowStatus to ensure the entry is active; an interface unexpectedly showing rcIpConfOspfEnable false when OSPF was intended would indicate a routing misconfiguration, and the rcIpRsmlt subtree would be checked for Layer 3 redundancy state.

What Can Be Monitored

  • per-interface RIP/OSPF/IGMP enable status
  • default route advertise/accept settings
  • DHCP relay enable status
  • IP address assignment method
  • triggered update enable status
  • RSMLT redundancy configuration
Imported Objects

From IF-MIB

InterfaceIndex
InterfaceIndexOrZero

From RAPID-CITY

EnableValue
IdList
rcIpOBJECT-IDENTITY

From RC-VRF-MIB

VrfIdentifier

From SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB

SnmpAdminString

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter32
Integer32
IpAddress
MODULE-IDENTITY
OBJECT-TYPE
Unsigned32

From SNMPv2-TC

DisplayString
MacAddress
RowStatus
TimeStamp
TruthValue

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using rcIpResourceUsageGlobalEgressRecInUse OID:

Select a Bay Networks/Nortel Accelar (Rapid-City/Passport) Layer 3 switch as the target host to create a monitor — the SNMP service should be up and running on it. Click New Monitor, then check SNMP Custom on the Favorites tab, click Next, and confirm the host. On the next page, click Select... to open the built-in SNMP MIB Browser and type rcIpResourceUsageGlobalEgressRecInUse into the Find box to locate it in the OID tree, then select it and click OK. It reports the current number of egress records in use on the switch (the pepstream count). On the monitor's Main parameters page you can set the target's SNMP port (default 161), credentials, polling interval, and other settings — see the SNMP Monitor help for details. On the State conditions and Alerting tabs, configure when the monitor should change state and trigger an alert; since this is an Integer32-type OID, Value bounds is the most useful condition here — trigger an alert if usage approaches the maximum egress-record capacity for this platform, since running out of egress records can block new flow programming. Click Finish to create the monitor; you can adjust any parameter later.

See also: rcIpResourceUsageGlobalIngressRecInUse, rcIpRsmltGlobalTableSize

OIDs

FAQ

What would an engineer check via RC-IP-MIB on a Bay Networks/Nortel Accelar switch?
They'd check per-interface routing configuration -- whether RIP, OSPF, or IGMP is enabled, whether default routes are advertised or accepted, DHCP relay status, how the interface's IP address was assigned, and whether RSMLT redundancy is correctly configured -- to verify the Layer 3 configuration state of each routed interface.

Why would someone load RC-IP-MIB into a MIB browser before scripting polls against it?
Because it's a legacy vendor extension rarely bundled with modern tooling, engineers typically inspect the rcIpConfTable structure and object semantics in a MIB browser first, since it adapts standard IP-MIB/RIP2-MIB concepts to the Bay Networks/Nortel Accelar switch architecture.

RFC description

IP management information base module for managing IP and ICMP implementations on networking devices.

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