Wellfleet-EGP-MIB

MIB Reference — IPNetwork Monitor · Updated October 06, 2026

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Category: Wellfleet BayNetworks Routing Protocols

Description: Monitors Wellfleet Exterior Gateway Protocol neighbor sessions and reachability advertisement statistics.

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What Is Wellfleet-EGP-MIB?

This is a vendor-specific MIB from Wellfleet (a router vendor later merged into Bay Networks/Nortel) for monitoring the Exterior Gateway Protocol (EGP), an early inter-autonomous-system routing protocol that predates BGP. No sample objects were provided for this batch, but based on its description it exposes EGP neighbor session state and reachability advertisement statistics. Its monitoring value would be routing protocol/software status: tracking neighbor session up/down state and update counts to catch EGP peering failures or route advertisement problems affecting inter-AS connectivity. It is inherently dependent on the EGP protocol specification (RFC 904), an obsolete standard superseded by BGP. It would have been deployed on legacy Wellfleet/Bay Networks routers at autonomous system boundaries, in networks that had not yet migrated to BGP. Engineers can download the Wellfleet-EGP-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

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Supported Devices

  • Wellfleet/Bay Networks router (legacy)

Monitoring Examples

No sample objects were provided for this MIB, so specific object names cannot be cited; conceptually an admin would monitor EGP neighbor session state and advertisement statistics to detect a peering session going down, but this cannot be grounded in real identifiers here.

Imported Objects

From RFC-1212

OBJECT-TYPE

From RFC1155-SMI

Counter
IpAddress

From Wellfleet-COMMON-MIB

wfEgpGroupOBJECT-IDENTITY
OIDs

RFC description

Wellfleet Communications MIB for managing Exterior Gateway Protocol (EGP) information on network devices, providing EGP peer status and reachability management objects.

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