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Organization: Enterprise Solution ZyXEL
Last Updated: 2012-07-01
Category: ZyXEL Routing and IP Services
Description: Defines ZyXEL ARP table management for monitoring and configuring address resolution protocol entries.
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What Is ZYXEL-ARP-MIB?
ZYXEL-ARP-MIB is a ZyXEL proprietary MIB covering the ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) subtree, providing objects for monitoring and configuring the device's ARP table, which maps IP addresses to MAC addresses on local network segments. Its data falls into the networking/configuration and state category, exposing the current set of resolved ARP entries and related settings (e.g., aging timeouts) rather than physical hardware sensors. In monitoring terms it supports verifying correct Layer 2/Layer 3 address resolution behavior of the device's networking software -- for instance detecting unexpectedly missing or duplicate ARP entries that could indicate connectivity or IP conflict problems -- rather than tracking hardware component health. It parallels the standard IETF IP-MIB/ipNetToMedia (or newer IP-MIB ipNetToPhysical) concept of ARP table management, suggesting conceptual alignment with those standards even if implemented as a ZyXEL-specific tree. It is typically deployed on ZyXEL routers, switches, or gateway devices where administrators need visibility into local ARP resolution state. Engineers can download the ZYXEL-ARP-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.
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Supported Devices
- ZyXEL router/switch/gateway
Monitoring Examples
No object or table names were provided in sample_objects for this module, so specific polling targets cannot be confirmed from the given data. Conceptually, an operator would poll an ARP entry table to check the current IP-to-MAC mappings on the device and detect an entry pointing to an unexpected or duplicate MAC address, which could indicate an IP address conflict or ARP spoofing on the local segment. Because sample_objects is empty, no invented object names are given here.
What Can Be Monitored
- ARP table entries (IP-to-MAC mapping)
- ARP entry aging/timeout
Imported Objects
From BRIDGE-MIB
| dot1dBasePort | OBJECT-TYPE |
From SNMPv2-SMI
| IpAddress | |
| MODULE-IDENTITY | |
| OBJECT-TYPE |
From SNMPv2-TC
| MacAddress | |
| RowStatus |
From ZYXEL-ES-SMI
| esMgmt | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
OIDs
RFC description
ZyXEL ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) configuration and status management, including learning modes and static ARP entries.
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