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Category: Wellfleet BayNetworks System Management
Description: Monitors Wellfleet network packet statistics including forwarding rates and protocol distribution counters.
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What Is Wellfleet-NPK-MIB?
This is a vendor-specific proprietary MIB from Wellfleet Communications (later Bay Networks/Nortel) exposing internal network packet-processing statistics for its router platforms, including forwarding rates and protocol-distribution counters. It provides visibility into how the router's forwarding engine is handling traffic across different protocols at a given moment. It supports hardware/software status monitoring because a drop in overall forwarding rate, or a skewed protocol distribution, can indicate CPU/forwarding-engine overload, a misbehaving protocol generating excessive traffic, or a hardware forwarding fault. There is no documented dependency on other MIBs; it appears to be an internal Wellfleet-proprietary statistics module without a direct standards equivalent. It is typically deployed on Wellfleet/Bay Networks routers where operators need low-level visibility into packet forwarding performance and protocol mix for capacity planning or troubleshooting. Engineers can download the Wellfleet-NPK-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.
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Supported Devices
- Wellfleet/Bay Networks multiprotocol routers
Monitoring Examples
No sample_objects were provided for this module; based on the short_desc, an operator would poll the aggregate packet forwarding rate counter and the per-protocol distribution counters over time. A sudden drop in forwarding rate combined with a spike in one protocol's counter (e.g., broadcast or a specific routing protocol) would suggest a traffic storm or forwarding-engine bottleneck degrading overall router performance.
What Can Be Monitored
- packet forwarding rate
- protocol distribution counters
- dropped packet count
Imported Objects
From RFC-1212
| OBJECT-TYPE |
From RFC1213-MIB
| DisplayString |
From Wellfleet-COMMON-MIB
| wfGameGroup | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
OIDs
RFC description
Configuration management for network packet key (NPK) hashing and protection in Wellfleet systems.
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