RFC 2851 (rfc2851) - Page 1 of 16
Textual Conventions for Internet Network Addresses
Alternative Format: Original Text Document
Network Working Group M. Daniele
Request for Comments: 2851 Compaq Computer Corporation
Category: Standards Track B. Haberman
Nortel Networks
S. Routhier
Wind River Systems, Inc.
J. Schoenwaelder
TU Braunschweig
June 2000
Textual Conventions for Internet Network Addresses
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 (2000). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
This MIB module defines textual conventions to represent commonly
used Internet network layer addressing information. The intent is
that these definitions will be imported and used in MIBs that would
otherwise define their own representations.
This work is output from the Operations and Management Area "IPv6MIB"
design team.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. The SNMP Management Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4. Usage Hints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4.1 Table Indexing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4.2 Uniqueness of Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.3 Multiple InetAddresses per Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.4 Resolving DNS Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
5. Table Indexing Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
6. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
7. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Daniele, et al. Standards Track
