RFC 3289 (rfc3289) - Page 1 of 116


Management Information Base for the Differentiated Services Architecture



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Network Working Group                                           F. Baker
Request for Comments: 3289                                  Cisco System
Category: Standards Track                                        K. Chan
                                                         Nortel Networks
                                                                A. Smith
                                                        Harbour Networks
                                                                May 2002


                  Management Information Base for the
                  Differentiated Services Architecture

Status of this Memo

   This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
   Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
   improvements.  Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
   Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
   and status of this protocol.  Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

Copyright Notice

   Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2002).  All Rights Reserved.

Abstract

   This memo describes an SMIv2 (Structure of Management Information
   version 2) MIB for a device implementing the Differentiated Services
   Architecture.  It may be used both for monitoring and configuration
   of a router or switch capable of Differentiated Services
   functionality.

Table of Contents

   1 The SNMP Management Framework .................................   3
   2 Relationship to other working group documents .................   4
   2.1  Relationship to the Informal Management Model for
        Differentiated Services Router .............................   4
   2.2 Relationship to other MIBs and Policy Management ............   5
   3 MIB Overview ..................................................   6
   3.1 Processing Path .............................................   7
   3.1.1 diffServDataPathTable - The Data Path Table ...............   7
   3.2 Classifier ..................................................   7
   3.2.1 diffServClfrElementTable - The Classifier Element Table ...   8
   3.2.2 diffServMultiFieldClfrTable - The Multi-field Classifier
        Table ......................................................   9
   3.3 Metering Traffic ............................................  10
   3.3.1 diffServMeterTable - The Meter Table ......................  11



Baker, et. al.              Standards Track