Network Working Group                                          E. Decker
Request for Comments: 1525                           cisco Systems, Inc.
Obsoletes: 1286                                            K. McCloghrie
Category: Standards Track                       Hughes LAN Systems, Inc.
                                                            P. Langille
                                                                    DEC
                                                         A. Rijsinghani
                                                                    DEC
                                                         September 1993


                  Definitions of Managed Objects for
                        Source Routing Bridges

Status of this Memo

  This RFC 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" for the standardization state and status
  of this protocol.  Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction .........................................    2
  2. The Network Management Framework .....................    2
  2.1 Object Definitions ..................................    2
  3. Overview .............................................    2
  3.1 Structure of MIB ....................................    3
  3.1.1 The dot1dSr Group .................................    4
  3.1.2 The dot1dPortPair Group ...........................    4
  3.2 Relationship to Other MIBs ..........................    5
  3.2.1 Relationship to the Bridge MIB ....................    5
  3.2.2 Relationship to the 'system' group ................    5
  3.2.3 Relationship to the 'interfaces' group ............    5
  4. Changes from RFC 1286 ................................    6
  5. Definitions ..........................................    7
  5.1 Groups in the SR MIB ................................    7
  5.2 The dot1dSr Group Definitions .......................    7
  5.3 The dot1dPortPair Group Definitions .................   14
  6. Acknowledgments ......................................   16
  7. References ...........................................   16
  8. Security Considerations ..............................   18
  9. Authors' Addresses ...................................   18







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1.  Introduction

  This memo defines a portion of the Management Information Base (MIB)
  for use with network management protocols in TCP/IP based internets.
  In particular, it defines objects for managing source routing and
  source routing transparent bridges.  These bridges are also required
  to implement relevant groups in the Bridge MIB [6].

  This MIB supersedes the dot1dSr group of objects published in an
  earlier version of the Bridge MIB, RFC 1286.  Changes have primarily
  been made to track changes in the IEEE 802.5M SRT Addendum to the
  IEEE 802.1D Standard for MAC Bridges.

2.  The Network Management Framework

  The Internet-standard Network Management Framework consists of three
  components.  They are:

     o    STD 16, RFC 1155 which defines the SMI, the mechanisms used for
          describing and naming objects for the purpose of
          management.  STD 16, RFC 1212 defines a more concise description
          mechanism, which is wholly consistent with the SMI.

     o    STD 17, RFC 1213 defines MIB-II, the core set of managed objects
          for the Internet suite of protocols.

     o    STD 15, RFC 1157 which defines the SNMP, the protocol used for
          network access to managed objects.

  The Framework permits new objects to be defined for the purpose of
  experimentation and evaluation.

2.1.  Object Definitions

  Managed objects are accessed via a virtual information store, termed
  the Management Information Base or MIB.  Objects in the MIB are
  defined using the subset of Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1)
  defined in the SMI.  In particular, each object object type is named
  by an OBJECT IDENTIFIER, an administratively assigned name.  The
  object type together with an object instance serves to uniquely
  identify a specific instantiation of the object.  For human
  convenience, we often use a textual string, termed the descriptor, to
  refer to the object type.

3.  Overview

  A common device present in many networks is the Bridge.  This device
  is used to connect Local Area Network segments below the network



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  layer.  There are two major modes defined for this bridging;
  transparent and source route.  The transparent method of bridging is
  defined in the IEEE 802.1d MAC Bridge specification [11].  Source
  route bridging has been defined by I.B.M. and is described in the
  Token Ring Architecture Reference [12], as well as the IEEE 802.5M
  SRT Bridge Operations Addendum [14] to 802.1d.  This memo defines
  objects needed for management of a source routing bridge, and is an
  extension to the SNMP Bridge MIB [6].

  An explicit attempt was made to keep this MIB as simple as possible.
  This was accomplished by applying the following criteria to objects
  proposed for inclusion:

     (1)  Start with a small set of essential objects and add only
          as further objects are needed.

     (2)  Require objects be essential for either fault or
          configuration management.

     (3)  Consider evidence of current use and/or utility.

     (4)  Limit the total of objects.

     (5)  Exclude objects which are simply derivable from others in
          this or other MIBs.

     (6)  Avoid causing critical sections to be heavily
          instrumented.  The guideline that was followed is one
          counter per critical section per layer.

3.1.  Structure of MIB

  Objects in this MIB are arranged into groups.  Each group is
  organized as a set of related objects.  The overall structure and
  assignment of objects to their groups is shown below.  Where
  appropriate, the corresponding management object name found in IEEE
  802.1d [11] and IEEE 802.5M [14] is also included.

   SR Bridge MIB Name              IEEE Name

     dot1dSr
       PortTable
         Port
         HopCount                    SourceRoutingPort
                                       .PortHopCount
         LocalSegment                  .SegmentNumber
         BridgeNum                     .BridgeNumber
         TargetSegment



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         LargestFrame                  .LargestFrameSize
         STESpanMode                   .LimitedBroadcastMode
         SpecInFrames                BridgePort
                                       .ValidSRFramesReceived
         SpecOutFrames                 .ValidSRForwardedOutbound
         ApeInFrames
         ApeOutFrames                  .BroadcastFramesForwarded
         SteInFrames
         SteOutFrames                  .BroadcastFramesForwarded
         SegmentMismatchDiscards       .DiscardInvalidRI
         DuplicateSegmentDiscards      .LanIdMismatch
         HopCountExceededDiscards      .FramesDiscardedHopCountExceeded

  The following IEEE management objects have not been included in the
  SR Bridge MIB for the indicated reasons.

   IEEE Object                     Disposition

   SourceRoutingPort
                                   The following objects were NOT
                                   included in this MIB because they
                                   are redundant or not considered
                                   useful.
       .LimitedBroadcastEnable
       .DiscardLackOfBuffers
       .DiscardErrorDetails
       .DiscardTargetLANInoperable
       .ValidSRDiscardedInbound
       .BroadcastBytesForwarded
       .NonBroadcastBytesForwarded
       .FramesNotReceivedDueToCongestion
       .FramesDiscardedDueToInternalError

3.1.1.  The dot1dSr Group

  This group contains the objects that describe the entity's state with
  respect to source route bridging.  If source routing is not
  supported, this group will not be implemented.  This group is
  applicable to source route only, and SRT bridges.

3.1.2.  The dot1dPortPair Group

  Implementation of this group is optional.  This group is implemented
  by those bridges that support the port-pair multiport model of the
  source route bridging mode as defined in the IEEE 802.5M SRT Addendum
  to 802.1d.





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3.2.  Relationship to Other MIBs

  As described above, some IEEE 802.1d management objects have not been
  included in this MIB because they overlap with objects in other MIBs
  applicable to a bridge implementing this MIB.  In particular, it is
  assumed that a bridge implementing this MIB will also implement (at
  least) the Bridge MIB and the 'system' group and the 'interfaces'
  group defined in MIB-II [4].

3.2.1.  Relationship to the Bridge MIB

  The Bridge MIB [6] must be implemented by all bridges, including
  transparent, SR and SRT bridges.  The SR bridge MIB is an extension
  to the Bridge MIB.

3.2.2.  Relationship to the 'system' group

  In MIB-II, the 'system' group is defined as being mandatory for all
  systems such that each managed entity contains one instance of each
  object in the 'system' group.  Thus, those objects apply to the
  entity as a whole irrespective of whether the entity's sole
  functionality is bridging, or whether bridging is only a subset of
  the entity's functionality.

3.2.3.  Relationship to the 'interfaces' group

  In MIB-II, the 'interfaces' group is defined as being mandatory for
  all systems and contains information on an entity's interfaces, where
  each interface is thought of as being attached to a `subnetwork'.
  (Note that this term is not to be confused with `subnet' which refers
  to an addressing partitioning scheme used in the Internet suite of
  protocols.)  The term 'segment' is used in this memo to refer to such
  a subnetwork.

  Implicit in this MIB is the notion of ports on a bridge.  Each of
  these ports is associated with one interface of the 'interfaces'
  group, and in most situations, each port is associated with a
  different interface. However, there are situations in which multiple
  ports are associated with the same interface.  An example of such a
  situation would be several ports, each corresponding one-to-one with
  several X.25 virtual circuits, but all on the same interface.

  Each port is uniquely identified by a port number.  A port number has
  no mandatory relationship to an interface number, but in the simple
  case, a port number will have the same value as the corresponding
  interface's interface number.





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  Some entities provide other services in addition to bridging with
  respect to the data sent and received by their interfaces.  In such
  situations, only a subset of the data sent/received on an interface
  is within the domain of the entity's bridging functionality.  This
  subset is considered to be delineated according to a set of
  protocols, with some protocols being bridged, and other protocols not
  being bridged.  For example, in an entity which exclusively performed
  bridging, all protocols would be considered as being bridged, whereas
  in an entity which performed IP routing on IP datagrams and only
  bridged other protocols, only the non-IP data would be considered as
  being bridged.

  Thus, this MIB (and in particular, its counters) are applicable only
  to that subset of the data on an entity's interfaces which is
  sent/received for a protocol being bridged.  All such data is
  sent/received via the ports of the bridge.

4.  Changes from RFC 1286

  In addition to being separated from the Bridge MIB into a separate
  document, the following changes were implemented as a result of
  feedback from IEEE 802.5M:

         (1)  Changed syntax of dot1dSrPortLargestFrame to INTEGER in
              order to allow for having 64 possible values as described
              in draft 7 of the SR Addendum.  Listed all legal values
              in description.

         (2)  Updated syntax of dot1dSrPort, used to index into
              dot1dSrPortTable, to use the range (1..65535).

         (3)  Added a counter to dot1dSrPortTable to count occurrences
              of duplicate LAN IDs or Tree errors.

         (4)  Added a counter to dot1dSrPortTable to count LAN ID
              mismatches.

         (5)  Added text to dot1dSrPortSpecInFrames and
              dot1dSrPortSpecOutFrames clarifying that they are also
              referred to as Source Routed Frames.

         (6)  Added text to dot1dSrPortApeInFrames and
              dot1dSrPortApeOutFrames clarifying that they are also
              referred to as All Routes Explorer frames.

         (7)  Added a scalar variable to the dot1dSr group to indicate
              whether the bridge uses 3 bit or 6 bit length negotiation
              fields.



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         (8)  Added dot1dPortPairGroup to allow representation of port
              pairs as defined in the IEEE 802.5M SRT Addendum.

5.  Definitions

         SOURCE-ROUTING-MIB DEFINITIONS ::= BEGIN

         IMPORTS
                 Counter, Gauge
                         FROM RFC1155-SMI
                 dot1dBridge, dot1dSr
                         FROM BRIDGE-MIB
                 OBJECT-TYPE
                         FROM RFC-1212;



         -- groups in the SR MIB

         -- dot1dSr is imported from the Bridge MIB

         dot1dPortPair   OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { dot1dBridge 10 }

         -- the dot1dSr group

         -- this group is implemented by those bridges that
         -- support the source route bridging mode, including Source
         -- Routing and SRT bridges.


         dot1dSrPortTable OBJECT-TYPE
             SYNTAX  SEQUENCE OF Dot1dSrPortEntry
             ACCESS  not-accessible
             STATUS  mandatory
             DESCRIPTION
                     "A table that contains information about every
                     port that is associated with this source route
                     bridge."
             ::= { dot1dSr 1 }

         dot1dSrPortEntry OBJECT-TYPE
             SYNTAX  Dot1dSrPortEntry
             ACCESS  not-accessible
             STATUS  mandatory
             DESCRIPTION
                     "A list of information for each port of a source
                     route bridge."
             INDEX   { dot1dSrPort }



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             ::= { dot1dSrPortTable 1 }

         Dot1dSrPortEntry ::=
             SEQUENCE {
                 dot1dSrPort
                     INTEGER,
                 dot1dSrPortHopCount
                     INTEGER,
                 dot1dSrPortLocalSegment
                     INTEGER,
                 dot1dSrPortBridgeNum
                     INTEGER,
                 dot1dSrPortTargetSegment
                     INTEGER,
                 dot1dSrPortLargestFrame
                     INTEGER,
                 dot1dSrPortSTESpanMode
                     INTEGER,
                 dot1dSrPortSpecInFrames
                     Counter,
                 dot1dSrPortSpecOutFrames
                     Counter,
                 dot1dSrPortApeInFrames
                     Counter,
                 dot1dSrPortApeOutFrames
                     Counter,
                 dot1dSrPortSteInFrames
                     Counter,
                 dot1dSrPortSteOutFrames
                     Counter,
                 dot1dSrPortSegmentMismatchDiscards
                     Counter,
                 dot1dSrPortDuplicateSegmentDiscards
                     Counter,
                 dot1dSrPortHopCountExceededDiscards
                     Counter,
                 dot1dSrPortDupLanIdOrTreeErrors
                     Counter,
                 dot1dSrPortLanIdMismatches
                     Counter
             }

         dot1dSrPort OBJECT-TYPE
             SYNTAX  INTEGER (1..65535)
             ACCESS  read-only
             STATUS  mandatory
             DESCRIPTION
                     "The port number of the port for which this entry



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                     contains Source Route management information."
             ::= { dot1dSrPortEntry 1 }

         dot1dSrPortHopCount OBJECT-TYPE
             SYNTAX  INTEGER
             ACCESS  read-write
             STATUS  mandatory
             DESCRIPTION
                     "The maximum number of routing descriptors allowed
                     in an All Paths or Spanning Tree Explorer frames."
             ::= { dot1dSrPortEntry 2 }

         dot1dSrPortLocalSegment OBJECT-TYPE
             SYNTAX  INTEGER
             ACCESS  read-write
             STATUS  mandatory
             DESCRIPTION
                     "The segment number that uniquely identifies the
                     segment to which this port is connected. Current
                     source routing protocols limit this value to the
                     range: 0 through 4095. (The value 0 is used by
                     some management applications for special test
                     cases.) A value of 65535 signifies that no segment
                     number is assigned to this port."
             ::= { dot1dSrPortEntry 3 }

         dot1dSrPortBridgeNum OBJECT-TYPE
             SYNTAX  INTEGER
             ACCESS  read-write
             STATUS  mandatory
             DESCRIPTION
                     "A bridge number uniquely identifies a bridge when
                     more than one bridge is used to span the same two
                     segments.  Current source routing protocols limit
                     this value to the range: 0 through 15. A value of
                     65535 signifies that no bridge number is assigned
                     to this bridge."
             ::= { dot1dSrPortEntry 4 }

         dot1dSrPortTargetSegment OBJECT-TYPE
             SYNTAX  INTEGER
             ACCESS  read-write
             STATUS  mandatory
             DESCRIPTION
                     "The segment number that corresponds to the target
                     segment this port is considered to be connected to
                     by the bridge.  Current source routing protocols
                     limit this value to the range: 0 through 4095.



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                     (The value 0 is used by some management
                     applications for special test cases.) A value of
                     65535 signifies that no target segment is assigned
                     to this port."
             ::= { dot1dSrPortEntry 5 }

         -- It would be nice if we could use ifMtu as the size of the
         -- largest frame, but we can't because ifMtu is defined to be
         -- the size that the (inter-)network layer can use which can
         -- differ from the MAC layer (especially if several layers of
         -- encapsulation are used).

         dot1dSrPortLargestFrame OBJECT-TYPE
             SYNTAX  INTEGER
             ACCESS  read-write
             STATUS  mandatory
             DESCRIPTION
                     "The maximum size of the INFO field (LLC and
                     above) that this port can send/receive.  It does
                     not include any MAC level (framing) octets.  The
                     value of this object is used by this bridge to
                     determine whether a modification of the
                     LargestFrame (LF, see [14]) field of the Routing
                     Control field of the Routing Information Field is
                     necessary.

                     64 valid values are defined by the IEEE 802.5M SRT
                     Addendum: 516, 635, 754, 873, 993, 1112, 1231,
                     1350, 1470, 1542, 1615, 1688, 1761, 1833, 1906,
                     1979, 2052, 2345, 2638, 2932, 3225, 3518, 3812,
                     4105, 4399, 4865, 5331, 5798, 6264, 6730, 7197,
                     7663, 8130, 8539, 8949, 9358, 9768, 10178, 10587,
                     10997, 11407, 12199, 12992, 13785, 14578, 15370,
                     16163, 16956, 17749, 20730, 23711, 26693, 29674,
                     32655, 35637, 38618, 41600, 44591, 47583, 50575,
                     53567, 56559, 59551, and 65535.

                     An illegal value will not be accepted by the
                     bridge."
             ::= { dot1dSrPortEntry 6 }

         dot1dSrPortSTESpanMode OBJECT-TYPE
             SYNTAX  INTEGER {
                         auto-span(1),
                         disabled(2),
                         forced(3)
                     }
             ACCESS  read-write



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             STATUS  mandatory
             DESCRIPTION
                     "Determines how this port behaves when presented
                     with a Spanning Tree Explorer frame.  The value
                     'disabled(2)' indicates that the port will not
                     accept or send Spanning Tree Explorer packets; any
                     STE packets received will be silently discarded.
                     The value 'forced(3)' indicates the port will
                     always accept and propagate Spanning Tree Explorer
                     frames.  This allows a manually configured
                     Spanning Tree for this class of packet to be
                     configured.  Note that unlike transparent
                     bridging, this is not catastrophic to the network
                     if there are loops.  The value 'auto-span(1)' can
                     only be returned by a bridge that both implements
                     the Spanning Tree Protocol and has use of the
                     protocol enabled on this port. The behavior of the
                     port for Spanning Tree Explorer frames is
                     determined by the state of dot1dStpPortState.  If
                     the port is in the 'forwarding' state, the frame
                     will be accepted or propagated.  Otherwise, it
                     will be silently discarded."
             ::= { dot1dSrPortEntry 7 }

         dot1dSrPortSpecInFrames OBJECT-TYPE
             SYNTAX  Counter
             ACCESS  read-only
             STATUS  mandatory
             DESCRIPTION
                     "The number of Specifically Routed frames, also
                     referred to as Source Routed Frames, that have
                     been received from this port's segment."
             ::= { dot1dSrPortEntry 8 }

         dot1dSrPortSpecOutFrames OBJECT-TYPE
             SYNTAX  Counter
             ACCESS  read-only
             STATUS  mandatory
             DESCRIPTION
                     "The number of Specifically Routed frames, also
                     referred to as Source Routed Frames, that this
                     port has transmitted on its segment."
             ::= { dot1dSrPortEntry 9 }

         dot1dSrPortApeInFrames OBJECT-TYPE
             SYNTAX  Counter
             ACCESS  read-only
             STATUS  mandatory



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             DESCRIPTION
                     "The number of All Paths Explorer frames, also
                     referred to as All Routes Explorer frames, that
                     have been received by this port from its segment."
             ::= { dot1dSrPortEntry 10 }

         dot1dSrPortApeOutFrames OBJECT-TYPE
             SYNTAX  Counter
             ACCESS  read-only
             STATUS  mandatory
             DESCRIPTION
                     "The number of all Paths Explorer Frames, also
                     referred to as All Routes Explorer frames, that
                     have been transmitted by this port on its
                     segment."
             ::= { dot1dSrPortEntry 11 }

         dot1dSrPortSteInFrames OBJECT-TYPE
             SYNTAX  Counter
             ACCESS  read-only
             STATUS  mandatory
             DESCRIPTION
                     "The number of spanning tree explorer frames that
                     have been received by this port from its segment."
             ::= { dot1dSrPortEntry 12 }

         dot1dSrPortSteOutFrames OBJECT-TYPE
             SYNTAX  Counter
             ACCESS  read-only
             STATUS  mandatory
             DESCRIPTION
                     "The number of spanning tree explorer frames that
                     have been transmitted by this port on its
                     segment."
             ::= { dot1dSrPortEntry 13 }

         dot1dSrPortSegmentMismatchDiscards OBJECT-TYPE
             SYNTAX  Counter
             ACCESS  read-only
             STATUS  mandatory
             DESCRIPTION
                     "The number of explorer frames that have been
                     discarded by this port because the routing
                     descriptor field contained an invalid adjacent
                     segment value."
             ::= { dot1dSrPortEntry 14 }

         dot1dSrPortDuplicateSegmentDiscards OBJECT-TYPE



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             SYNTAX  Counter
             ACCESS  read-only
             STATUS  mandatory
             DESCRIPTION
                     "The number of frames that have been discarded by
                     this port because the routing descriptor field
                     contained a duplicate segment identifier."
             ::= { dot1dSrPortEntry 15 }

         dot1dSrPortHopCountExceededDiscards OBJECT-TYPE
             SYNTAX  Counter
             ACCESS  read-only
             STATUS  mandatory
             DESCRIPTION
                     "The number of explorer frames that have been
                     discarded by this port because the Routing
                     Information Field has exceeded the maximum route
                     descriptor length."
             ::= { dot1dSrPortEntry 16 }

         dot1dSrPortDupLanIdOrTreeErrors OBJECT-TYPE
             SYNTAX  Counter
             ACCESS  read-only
             STATUS  mandatory
             DESCRIPTION
                     "The number of duplicate LAN IDs or Tree errors.
                     This helps in detection of problems in networks
                     containing older IBM Source Routing Bridges."
             ::= { dot1dSrPortEntry 17 }

         dot1dSrPortLanIdMismatches OBJECT-TYPE
             SYNTAX  Counter
             ACCESS  read-only
             STATUS  mandatory
             DESCRIPTION
                     "The number of ARE and STE frames that were
                     discarded because the last LAN ID in the routing
                     information field did not equal the LAN-in ID.
                     This error can occur in implementations which do
                     only a LAN-in ID and Bridge Number check instead
                     of a LAN-in ID, Bridge Number, and LAN-out ID
                     check before they forward broadcast frames."
             ::= { dot1dSrPortEntry 18 }


         -- scalar object in dot1dSr

         dot1dSrBridgeLfMode OBJECT-TYPE



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             SYNTAX  INTEGER {
                         mode3(1),
                         mode6(2)
                     }
             ACCESS  read-write
             STATUS  mandatory
             DESCRIPTION
                     "Indicates whether the bridge operates using older
                     3 bit length negotiation fields or the newer 6 bit
                     length field in its RIF."
             ::= { dot1dSr 2 }


         -- The Port-Pair Database

         -- Implementation of this group is optional.

         -- This group is implemented by those bridges that support
         -- the direct multiport model of the source route bridging
         -- mode as defined in the IEEE 802.5 SRT Addendum to
         -- 802.1d.

         -- Bridges implementing this group may report 65535 for
         -- dot1dSrPortBridgeNumber and dot1dSrPortTargetSegment,
         -- indicating that those objects are not applicable.

         dot1dPortPairTableSize OBJECT-TYPE
             SYNTAX  Gauge
             ACCESS  read-only
             STATUS  mandatory
             DESCRIPTION
                     "The total number of entries in the Bridge Port
                     Pair Database."
             ::= { dot1dPortPair 1 }


         -- the Bridge Port-Pair table

         -- this table represents port pairs within a bridge forming
         -- a unique bridge path, as defined in the IEEE 802.5M SRT
         -- Addendum.

         dot1dPortPairTable OBJECT-TYPE
             SYNTAX  SEQUENCE OF Dot1dPortPairEntry
             ACCESS  not-accessible
             STATUS  mandatory
             DESCRIPTION
                     "A table that contains information about every



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                     port pair database entity associated with this
                     source routing bridge."
             ::= { dot1dPortPair 2 }

         dot1dPortPairEntry OBJECT-TYPE
             SYNTAX  Dot1dPortPairEntry
             ACCESS  not-accessible
             STATUS  mandatory
             DESCRIPTION
                     "A list of information for each port pair entity
                     of a bridge."
             INDEX   { dot1dPortPairLowPort, dot1dPortPairHighPort }
             ::= { dot1dPortPairTable 1 }

         Dot1dPortPairEntry ::=
             SEQUENCE {
                 dot1dPortPairLowPort
                     INTEGER,
                 dot1dPortPairHighPort
                     INTEGER,
                 dot1dPortPairBridgeNum
                     INTEGER,
                 dot1dPortPairBridgeState
                     INTEGER
             }

         dot1dPortPairLowPort OBJECT-TYPE
             SYNTAX  INTEGER (1..65535)
             ACCESS  read-write
             STATUS  mandatory
             DESCRIPTION
                     "The port number of the lower numbered port for
                     which this entry contains port pair database
                     information."
             ::= { dot1dPortPairEntry 1 }

         dot1dPortPairHighPort OBJECT-TYPE
             SYNTAX  INTEGER (1..65535)
             ACCESS  read-write
             STATUS  mandatory
             DESCRIPTION
                     "The port number of the higher numbered port for
                     which this entry contains port pair database
                     information."
             ::= { dot1dPortPairEntry 2 }

         dot1dPortPairBridgeNum OBJECT-TYPE
             SYNTAX  INTEGER



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             ACCESS  read-write
             STATUS  mandatory
             DESCRIPTION
                     "A bridge number that uniquely identifies the path
                     provided by this source routing bridge between the
                     segments connected to dot1dPortPairLowPort and
                     dot1dPortPairHighPort.  The purpose of bridge
                     number is to disambiguate between multiple paths
                     connecting the same two LANs."
             ::= { dot1dPortPairEntry 3 }

         dot1dPortPairBridgeState OBJECT-TYPE
             SYNTAX  INTEGER {
                         enabled(1),
                         disabled(2),
                         invalid(3)
                     }
             ACCESS  read-write
             STATUS  mandatory
             DESCRIPTION
                     "The state of dot1dPortPairBridgeNum.  Writing
                     'invalid(3)' to this object removes the
                     corresponding entry."
             ::= { dot1dPortPairEntry 4 }




         END

6.  Acknowledgments

  This document was produced on behalf of the Bridge MIB Working Group
  in the NM area of the Internet Engineering Task Force.

  The authors wish to thank the members of the Bridge MIB Working Group
  for their many comments and suggestions which improved this effort.

7.  References

  [1] Cerf, V., "IAB Recommendations for the Development of Internet
      Network Management Standards", RFC 1052, NRI, April 1988.

  [2] Cerf, V., "Report of the Second Ad Hoc Network Management Review
      Group", RFC 1109, NRI, August 1989.

  [3] Rose M., and K. McCloghrie, "Structure and Identification of
      Management Information for TCP/IP-based internets", STD 16, RFC



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      1155, Performance Systems International, Hughes LAN Systems, May
      1990.

  [4] McCloghrie K., and M. Rose, Editors, "Management Information Base
      for Network Management of TCP/IP-based internets", STD 17, RFC
      1213, Performance Systems International, March 1991.

  [5] Case, J., Fedor, M., Schoffstall, M., and J. Davin, "Simple
      Network Management Protocol", STD 15, RFC 1157, SNMP Research,
      Performance Systems International, Performance Systems
      International, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, May 1990.

  [6] Decker, E., Langille, P., Rijsinghani, A., and McCloghrie, K.,
      "Definitions of Managed Objects for Bridges", RFC 1493, cisco
      Systems, Digital Equipment Corporation, Digital Equipment
      Corporation, Hughes LAN Systems, July 1993.

  [7] Information processing systems - Open Systems Interconnection -
      Specification of Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1),
      International Organization for Standardization, International
      Standard 8824, December 1987.

  [8] Information processing systems - Open Systems Interconnection -
      Specification of Basic Encoding Rules for Abstract Notation One
      (ASN.1), International Organization for Standardization,
      International Standard 8825, December 1987.

  [9] Rose, M., and K. McCloghrie, Editors, "Concise MIB Definitions",
      STD 16, RFC 1212, Performance Systems International, Hughes LAN
      Systems, March 1991.

 [10] Rose, M., Editor, "A Convention for Defining Traps for use with
      the SNMP", RFC 1215, Performance Systems International, March
      1991.

 [11] ANSI/IEEE Standard 802.1D-1990 MAC Bridges, IEEE Project 802
      Local and Metropolitan Area Networks, (March 8, 1991).

 [12] I.B.M. Token Ring Architecture Reference.

 [13] ISO DIS 10038 MAC Bridges.

 [14] ANSI/IEEE P802.5M-Draft 7, "Source Routing Transparent Bridge
      Operation", IEEE Project 802 (1991).

 [15] ANSI/IEEE 802.1y, "Source Routing Tutorial for End System
      Operation", (September, 1990).




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Security Considerations

  Security issues are not discussed in this memo.

Authors' Addresses

  Eric B. Decker
  cisco Systems, Inc.
  1525 O'Brien Dr.
  Menlo Park, CA  94025

  Phone: (415) 326-1941
  Email: [email protected]


  Keith McCloghrie
  Hughes LAN Systems, Inc.
  1225 Charleston Road
  Mountain View, CA 94043

  Phone: (415) 966-7934
  EMail: [email protected]


  Paul Langille
  Digital Equipment Corporation
  Digital Drive, MK02-2/K03
  Merrimack, NH 03054

  Phone: (603) 884-4045
  EMail: [email protected]


  Anil Rijsinghani
  Digital Equipment Corporation
  550 King Street
  Littleton, MA 01460

  Phone: (508) 486-6786
  EMail: [email protected]











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