Implementation of IP-MIB Modules for IPv4 and IPv6 protocol
Abstract
While IPv6 is entering its operational phase, very few management architectur- es or tools exit to manage it. Even the SNMP (Simple Network Management protocol) framework, which was mainly used for IPv4 networks, is unavailable for IPv6 ones, as no MIB II (Management Information Base) is fixed for these networks. Firstly defined in 1998, the MIB II able to manage IPv6 networks had the inconvenient to separate IPv4 and IPv6 management. A second approach was defined in 2000, creating a «unified MIB». This second approach evoluated until 2002, where it seems to be fixed. This document explains the first implementation of this «unified MIB». It describes the implementatio- n of its new associated textual convention and of the four others drafts that defined it, into the net-snmp-5.0.3 module of the net-snmp package, on FreeBSD 4.5 system.