TCP-ESTATS-MIB

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Organization: IETF TSV Working Group

Last Updated: 2007-05-18

Category: IP and Core Protocols

Description: Defines extended TCP performance statistics for diagnosing whether network application bottlenecks are in the sender, receiver, or network.

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What Is TCP-ESTATS-MIB?

TCP-ESTATS-MIB is a vendor-neutral IETF standards-track MIB (based on the Web100 project) that defines extended TCP performance instrumentation beyond the basic counters in the standard TCP-MIB. It exposes per-connection and per-listener performance and diagnostic data organized into control objects (path, stack, application, tuning, notification) and statistics such as connection latency and listener activity, intended to help pinpoint whether a networking bottleneck lies in the sending application, the receiving application, or the network path itself. Its monitoring value is centered on software/network performance diagnostics rather than physical hardware health: administrators use it to watch TCP connection setup timing, retransmission-related behavior, and listener socket activity to detect degraded application or network performance, and because objects mirror the underlying TCP stack's state, a device reboot clears counters and dynamic rows, reflecting current live connections only. It is explicitly layered on top of (and meant to complement) the standard TCP-MIB and the host's TCP/IP stack implementation. It is typically deployed on hosts, servers, or network appliances where deep TCP performance troubleshooting is needed, such as diagnosing slow file transfers or application throughput issues. Engineers implementing or auditing this functionality typically reference the TCP-ESTATS-MIB RFC/standard documentation for the authoritative specification.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in TCP-ESTATS-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

  • vendor-neutral, standards-based MIB, not tied to a specific manufacturer
  • hosts, servers, and network devices running a TCP/IP stack

Monitoring Examples

An administrator troubleshooting a slow application would poll tcpEStatsListenerTable / tcpEStatsListenerEntry to check fields such as tcpEStatsListenerStartTime and tcpEStatsListenerSynRcvd, revealing how many SYNs a listening socket has received and since when, and would use tcpEStatsConnTableLatency alongside tcpEStatsControlPath and tcpEStatsControlStack to correlate connection-level latency with path and stack behavior. Tracking tcpEStatsListenerTableLastChange helps a monitoring system know when new listeners have appeared or changed without re-polling the whole table each cycle.

What Can Be Monitored

  • TCP listener socket activity
  • SYN-received counts
  • connection setup latency
  • listener start time
  • TCP stack/application/tuning control state
  • table change notifications
Imported Objects

From HCNUM-TC

ZeroBasedCounter64

From RMON2-MIB

ZeroBasedCounter32

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
NOTIFICATION-GROUP
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter32
Gauge32
Integer32
MODULE-IDENTITY
NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECT-TYPE
Unsigned32
mib-2

From SNMPv2-TC

DateAndTime
TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
TimeStamp
TruthValue

From TCP-MIB

tcpConnectionEntryOBJECT-TYPE
tcpListenerEntryOBJECT-TYPE
OIDs

RFC description

IETF standard MIB (RFC 4898) providing enhanced TCP statistics and performance metrics for diagnostic analysis of TCP connections.

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