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Management Information Base for Network Management of TCP/IP-based internets:MIB-II

RFC 1213                         MIB-II                       March 1991


   6.4 The Interfaces Group .................................   16
   6.5 The Address Translation Group ........................   23
   6.6 The IP Group .........................................   26
   6.7 The ICMP Group .......................................   41
   6.8 The TCP Group ........................................   46
   6.9 The UDP Group ........................................   52
   6.10 The EGP Group .......................................   54
   6.11 The Transmission Group ..............................   60
   6.12 The SNMP Group ......................................   60
   7. Acknowledgements ......................................   67
   8. References ............................................   69
   9. Security Considerations ...............................   70
   10. Authors' Addresses ...................................   70

1.  Abstract

   This memo defines the second version of the Management Information
   Base (MIB-II) for use with network management protocols in TCP/IP-
   based internets.  In particular, together with its companion memos
   which describe the structure of management information (RFC 1155)
   along with the network management protocol (RFC 1157) for TCP/IP-
   based internets, these documents provide a simple, workable
   architecture and system for managing TCP/IP-based internets and in
   particular the Internet community.

2.  Introduction

   As reported in RFC 1052, IAB Recommendations for the Development of
   Internet Network Management Standards [1], a two-prong strategy for
   network management of TCP/IP-based internets was undertaken.  In the
   short-term, the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) was to be
   used to manage nodes in the Internet community.  In the long-term,
   the use of the OSI network management framework was to be examined.
   Two documents were produced to define the management information: RFC
   1065, which defined the Structure of Management Information (SMI)
   [2], and RFC 1066, which defined the Management Information Base
   (MIB) [3].  Both of these documents were designed so as to be
   compatible with both the SNMP and the OSI network management
   framework.

   This strategy was quite successful in the short-term: Internet-based
   network management technology was fielded, by both the research and
   commercial communities, within a few months.  As a result of this,
   portions of the Internet community became network manageable in a
   timely fashion.

   As reported in RFC 1109, Report of the Second Ad Hoc Network
   Management Review Group [4], the requirements of the SNMP and the OSI



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