TRANSPORT-ADDRESS-MIB

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Organization: IETF Operations and Management Area

Last Updated: 2002-11-01

Category: IP and Core Protocols, Textual Conventions and Registries

Description: Defines textual conventions for representing transport-layer addresses and transport domains, supporting protocols such as UDP and TCP over both IPv4 and IPv6.

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What Is TRANSPORT-ADDRESS-MIB?

TRANSPORT-ADDRESS-MIB is an IETF standards-track MIB (RFC 3419) that defines vendor-neutral textual conventions for representing transport-layer addresses and the transport domains they belong to, such as UDP/IPv4 and TCP/IPv6. Rather than exposing operational counters itself, it supplies common data types - like TransportAddress and TransportAddressType - that other MIB modules reuse to describe endpoint addresses consistently. The TRANSPORT-ADDRESS-MIB RFC text itself contains no monitorable counters, only the type definitions other MIBs import. Because it is a definitions-only module, it plays no direct role in reporting hardware or software status; its value lies purely in standardizing how other MIBs (which do report status) express addressing. Many later application- and transport-layer MIBs depend on this module for their address-typed objects, making it a widely-imported building block rather than a standalone one. It is used as a foundational MIB compiled alongside any other MIB needing to represent a transport endpoint, on essentially any managed IP device.

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Supported Devices

vendor-neutral, standards-based MIB, not tied to a specific manufacturer
any managed IP device or network element using SNMP

Monitoring Examples

This module defines the transportDomains registration subtree and associated textual conventions (e.g., transport address and address-type conventions) rather than runtime counters, so there is no monitoring scenario to poll directly; its objects are instead referenced by other MIBs' tables - for example a session or peer-address column - that import these types to encode addresses consistently.

Imported Objects

From SNMPv2-SMI

MODULE-IDENTITY
OBJECT-IDENTITY
mib-2

From SNMPv2-TC

TEXTUAL-CONVENTION

OIDs

OID symbolic	OID numeric	Description
transportAddressMIB	1.3.6.1.2.1.100	This MIB module provides commonly used transport address definitions. Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2002). This version of this MIB module is part of RFC 3419; see the RFC itself for full legal notices.
transportDomainLocal	1.3.6.1.2.1.100.1.13	The Posix Local IPC transport domain. The corresponding transport address is of type TransportAddressLocal. The Posix Local IPC transport domain incorporates the well-known UNIX domain sockets.
transportDomains	1.3.6.1.2.1.100.1
transportDomainSctpDns	1.3.6.1.2.1.100.1.16	The SCTP transport domain using fully qualified domain names. The corresponding transport address is of type TransportAddressDns.
transportDomainSctpIpv4	1.3.6.1.2.1.100.1.9	The SCTP over IPv4 transport domain. The corresponding transport address is of type TransportAddressIPv4 for global IPv4 addresses. This transport domain usually represents the primary address on multihomed SCTP endpoints.
transportDomainSctpIpv4z	1.3.6.1.2.1.100.1.11	The SCTP over IPv4 transport domain. The corresponding transport address is of type TransportAddressIPv4z for scoped IPv4 addresses with a zone index. This transport domain usually represents the primary address on multihomed SCTP endpoints.
transportDomainSctpIpv6	1.3.6.1.2.1.100.1.10	The SCTP over IPv6 transport domain. The corresponding transport address is of type TransportAddressIPv6 for global IPv6 addresses. This transport domain usually represents the primary address on multihomed SCTP endpoints.
transportDomainSctpIpv6z	1.3.6.1.2.1.100.1.12	The SCTP over IPv6 transport domain. The corresponding transport address is of type TransportAddressIPv6z for scoped IPv6 addresses with a zone index. This transport domain usually represents the primary address on multihomed SCTP endpoints.
transportDomainTcpDns	1.3.6.1.2.1.100.1.15	The TCP transport domain using fully qualified domain names. The corresponding transport address is of type TransportAddressDns.
transportDomainTcpIpv4	1.3.6.1.2.1.100.1.5	The TCP over IPv4 transport domain. The corresponding transport address is of type TransportAddressIPv4 for global IPv4 addresses.
transportDomainTcpIpv4z	1.3.6.1.2.1.100.1.7	The TCP over IPv4 transport domain. The corresponding transport address is of type TransportAddressIPv4z for scoped IPv4 addresses with a zone index.
transportDomainTcpIpv6	1.3.6.1.2.1.100.1.6	The TCP over IPv6 transport domain. The corresponding transport address is of type TransportAddressIPv6 for global IPv6 addresses.
transportDomainTcpIpv6z	1.3.6.1.2.1.100.1.8	The TCP over IPv6 transport domain. The corresponding transport address is of type TransportAddressIPv6z for scoped IPv6 addresses with a zone index.
transportDomainUdpDns	1.3.6.1.2.1.100.1.14	The UDP transport domain using fully qualified domain names. The corresponding transport address is of type TransportAddressDns.
transportDomainUdpIpv4	1.3.6.1.2.1.100.1.1	The UDP over IPv4 transport domain. The corresponding transport address is of type TransportAddressIPv4 for global IPv4 addresses.
transportDomainUdpIpv4z	1.3.6.1.2.1.100.1.3	The UDP over IPv4 transport domain. The corresponding transport address is of type TransportAddressIPv4z for scoped IPv4 addresses with a zone index.
transportDomainUdpIpv6	1.3.6.1.2.1.100.1.2	The UDP over IPv6 transport domain. The corresponding transport address is of type TransportAddressIPv6 for global IPv6 addresses.
transportDomainUdpIpv6z	1.3.6.1.2.1.100.1.4	The UDP over IPv6 transport domain. The corresponding transport address is of type TransportAddressIPv6z for scoped IPv6 addresses with a zone index.

RFC description

IETF RFC 3419 transport address definitions providing commonly used transport domain and address type conventions for SNMP.

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