IP Version 6 Management Information Base for

The Multicast Listener Discovery Protocol

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.

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Abstract

This document defines a portion of the Management Information Base (MIB) for use with network management protocols in Internet Protocol Version 6 internets. Specifically, this document is the MIB module that defines managed objects for implementations of the Multicast Listener Discovery Protocol [RFC2710].

Terminology

The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].

1. The SNMP Management Framework

The SNMP Management Framework presently consists of five major components:

An overall architecture, described in RFC 2571 [RFC2571].

Mechanisms for describing and naming objects and events for the purpose of management. The first version of this Structure of Management Information (SMI) is called SMIv1 and described in STD 16,

RFC 1155 [RFC1155], STD 16, RFC 1212 [RFC1212] and RFC 1215 [RFC1215]. The second version, called SMIv2, is described in STD 58, RFC 2578 [RFC2578], STD 58, RFC 2579 [RFC2579] and STD 58, RFC 2580 [RFC2580].

Message protocols for transferring management information. The first version of the SNMP message protocol is called SNMPv1 and described in STD 15, RFC 1157 [RFC1157]. A second version of the SNMP message protocol, which is not an Internet standards track protocol, is called SNMPv2c and described in RFC 1901 [RFC1901] and RFC 1906 [RFC1906]. The third version of the message protocol is called SNMPv3 and described in RFC 1906 [RFC1906], RFC 2572 [RFC2572] and RFC 2574 [RFC2574].

Protocol operations for accessing management information. The first set of protocol operations and associated PDU formats is described in STD 15, RFC 1157 [RFC1157]. A second set of protocol operations and associated PDU formats is described in RFC 1905 [RFC1905].

A set of fundamental applications described in RFC 2573 [RFC2573] and the view-based access control mechanism described in RFC 2575 [RFC2575].

A more detailed introduction to the current SNMP Management Framework can be found in RFC 2570 [RFC2570].

Managed objects are accessed via a virtual information store, termed the Management Information Base or MIB. Objects in the MIB are defined using the mechanisms defined in the SMI.

This memo specifies a MIB module that is compliant to the SMIv2. A MIB conforming to the SMIv1 can be produced through the appropriate translations. The resulting translated MIB must be semantically equivalent, except where objects or events are omitted because no translation is possible (use of Counter64). Some machine-readable information in SMIv2 will be converted into textual descriptions in SMIv1 during the translation process. However, this loss of machine-readable information is not considered to change the semantics of the MIB.

2. Overview

This MIB module contains two tables:

1. The MLD Interface Table, which contains one row for each interface on which MLD is enabled.
   
   
   
   

2. The MLD Cache Table which contains one row for each IPv6 Multicast group for which there are members on a particular interface.

Both tables are intended to be implemented by hosts and routers. Some objects in each table apply to routers only.

3. Definitions

IPV6-MLD-MIB DEFINITIONS ::= BEGIN

IMPORTS

MODULE-IDENTITY, OBJECT-TYPE, Counter32, Gauge32,

Unsigned32, TimeTicks, mib-2	FROM	SNMPv2-SMI
RowStatus, TruthValue	FROM	SNMPv2-TC
InetAddressIPv6 FROM	INET	ADDRESS-MIB
InterfaceIndex, InterfaceIndexOrZero
	FROM IF-MIB
MODULE-COMPLIANCE, OBJECT-GROUP	FROM	SNMPv2-CONF;

mldMIB MODULE-IDENTITY

LAST-UPDATED "200101250000Z" -- 25 Jan 2001 ORGANIZATION "IETF IPNGWG Working Group." CONTACT-INFO

"

Brian Haberman
Nortel Networks 4309 Emperor Blvd. Durham, NC 27703 USA

Phone: +1 919 992 4439

e-mail: haberman@nortelnetworks.com"

DESCRIPTION

"The MIB module for MLD Management."

REVISION "200101250000Z" -- 25 Jan 2001 DESCRIPTION

"Initial version, published as RFC 3019."
::= { mib-2 91 }

mldMIBObjects OBJECT IDENTIFIER

:= { mldMIB 1 } -- -- The MLD Interface Table --

mldInterfaceTable OBJECT-TYPE

SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF MldInterfaceEntry

MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION

"The (conceptual) table listing the interfaces on which

MLD is enabled."
::= { mldMIBObjects 1 }

mldInterfaceEntry OBJECT-TYPE

SYNTAX MldInterfaceEntry
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION

"An entry (conceptual row) representing an interface on

	which MLD is enabled."
	INDEX { mldInterfaceIfIndex }
	::= { mldInterfaceTable 1 }
MldInterfaceEntry ::= SEQUENCE {
	mldInterfaceIfIndex	InterfaceIndex,
	mldInterfaceQueryInterval	Unsigned32,
	mldInterfaceStatus	RowStatus,
	mldInterfaceVersion	Unsigned32,
	mldInterfaceQuerier	InetAddressIPv6,
	mldInterfaceQueryMaxResponseDelay	Unsigned32,
	mldInterfaceJoins	Counter32,
	mldInterfaceGroups	Gauge32,
	mldInterfaceRobustness	Unsigned32,
	mldInterfaceLastListenQueryIntvl	Unsigned32,
	mldInterfaceProxyIfIndex	InterfaceIndexOrZero,
	mldInterfaceQuerierUpTime	TimeTicks,
}	mldInterfaceQuerierExpiryTime	TimeTicks

mldInterfaceIfIndex OBJECT-TYPE

SYNTAX InterfaceIndex
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION

"The internetwork-layer interface value of the interface

	for which MLD is enabled." ::= { mldInterfaceEntry 1 }
mldInterfaceQueryInterval OBJECT-TYPE
	SYNTAX Unsigned32 UNITS "seconds" MAX-ACCESS read-create STATUS current

DESCRIPTION

"The frequency at which MLD Host-Query packets are

transmitted on this interface."
DEFVAL { 125 }
::= { mldInterfaceEntry 2 }

mldInterfaceStatus OBJECT-TYPE

SYNTAX RowStatus
MAX-ACCESS read-create
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION

"The activation of a row enables MLD on the interface.

The destruction of a row disables MLD on the interface."
::= { mldInterfaceEntry 3 }

mldInterfaceVersion OBJECT-TYPE

SYNTAX Unsigned32
MAX-ACCESS read-create
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION

"The version of MLD which is running on this interface. This object is a place holder to allow for new versions of MLD to be introduced. Version 1 of MLD is defined

in RFC 2710."
DEFVAL { 1 }
::= { mldInterfaceEntry 4 }

mldInterfaceQuerier OBJECT-TYPE

SYNTAX InetAddressIPv6 (SIZE (16)) MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION

"The address of the MLD Querier on the IPv6 subnet to

	which this interface is attached." ::= { mldInterfaceEntry 5 }
mldInterfaceQueryMaxResponseDelay OBJECT-TYPE
	SYNTAX Unsigned32 UNITS "seconds" MAX-ACCESS read-create STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The maximum query response time advertised in MLD queries on this interface." DEFVAL { 10 } ::= { mldInterfaceEntry 6 }

mldInterfaceJoins OBJECT-TYPE

SYNTAX Counter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION

"The number of times a group membership has been added on this interface; that is, the number of times an entry for this interface has been added to the Cache Table. This object gives an indication of the amount of MLD activity

over time."
::= { mldInterfaceEntry 7 }

mldInterfaceGroups OBJECT-TYPE

SYNTAX Gauge32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION

"The current number of entries for this interface in the

Cache Table."
::= { mldInterfaceEntry 8 }

mldInterfaceRobustness OBJECT-TYPE

SYNTAX Unsigned32
MAX-ACCESS read-create
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION

"The Robustness Variable allows tuning for the expected packet loss on a subnet. If a subnet is expected to be lossy, the Robustness Variable may be increased. MLD is robust to (Robustness Variable-1) packet losses. The discussion of the Robustness Variable is in Section 7.1

	of RFC 2710." DEFVAL { 2 } ::= { mldInterfaceEntry 9 }
mldInterfaceLastListenQueryIntvl OBJECT-TYPE
	SYNTAX Unsigned32 UNITS "seconds" MAX-ACCESS read-create STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The Last Member Query Interval is the Max Response

Delay inserted into Group-Specific Queries sent in response to Leave Group messages, and is also the amount of time between Group-Specific Query messages. This value may be tuned to modify the leave latency of the network. A reduced value results in reduced time to

                detect the loss of the last member of a group."
       DEFVAL     { 1 }

::= { mldInterfaceEntry 10 }

mldInterfaceProxyIfIndex OBJECT-TYPE

SYNTAX InterfaceIndexOrZero MAX-ACCESS read-create
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION

"Some devices implement a form of MLD proxying whereby memberships learned on the interface represented by this row, cause MLD Multicast Listener Reports to be sent on the internetwork-layer interface identified by this object. Such a device would implement mldRouterMIBGroup only on its router interfaces (those interfaces with non-zero mldInterfaceProxyIfIndex). Typically, the value of this object is 0, indicating that no proxying

is being done."
DEFVAL { 0 }
::= { mldInterfaceEntry 11 }

mldInterfaceQuerierUpTime OBJECT-TYPE

SYNTAX TimeTicks
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION

"The time since mldInterfaceQuerier was last changed."
::= { mldInterfaceEntry 12 }

mldInterfaceQuerierExpiryTime OBJECT-TYPE

SYNTAX TimeTicks
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION

"The time remaining before the Other Querier Present Timer expires. If the local system is the querier,

the value of this object is zero."
::= { mldInterfaceEntry 13 }

--
-- The MLD Cache Table
--

mldCacheTable OBJECT-TYPE

SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF MldCacheEntry MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION

"The (conceptual) table listing the IPv6 multicast

groups for which there are members on a particular

interface."
::= { mldMIBObjects 2 }

mldCacheEntry OBJECT-TYPE

SYNTAX MldCacheEntry
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION

	"An entry (conceptual row) in the mldCacheTable." INDEX { mldCacheAddress, mldCacheIfIndex } ::= { mldCacheTable 1 }
MldCacheEntry ::= SEQUENCE {
}	mldCacheAddress InetAddressIPv6, mldCacheIfIndex InterfaceIndex, mldCacheSelf TruthValue, mldCacheLastReporter InetAddressIPv6, mldCacheUpTime TimeTicks, mldCacheExpiryTime TimeTicks, mldCacheStatus RowStatus

mldCacheAddress OBJECT-TYPE

SYNTAX InetAddressIPv6 (SIZE (16)) MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION

"The IPv6 multicast group address for which this entry

contains information."
::= { mldCacheEntry 1 }

mldCacheIfIndex OBJECT-TYPE

SYNTAX InterfaceIndex
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION

"The internetwork-layer interface for which this entry contains information for an IPv6 multicast group

address."
::= { mldCacheEntry 2 }

mldCacheSelf OBJECT-TYPE

SYNTAX TruthValue
MAX-ACCESS read-create
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION

"An indication of whether the local system is a member of

this group address on this interface."
DEFVAL { true }
::= { mldCacheEntry 3 }

mldCacheLastReporter OBJECT-TYPE

SYNTAX InetAddressIPv6 (SIZE (16)) MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION

"The IPv6 address of the source of the last membership report received for this IPv6 Multicast group address on this interface. If no membership report has been

                received, this object has the value 0::0."
       ::= { mldCacheEntry 4 }

mldCacheUpTime OBJECT-TYPE

SYNTAX TimeTicks
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION

"The time elapsed since this entry was created."
::= { mldCacheEntry 5 }

mldCacheExpiryTime OBJECT-TYPE

SYNTAX TimeTicks
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION

"The minimum amount of time remaining before this entry will be aged out. A value of 0 indicates that the entry is only present because mldCacheSelf is true and that if the router left the group, this entry would be aged out immediately. Note that some implementations may process Membership Reports from the local system in the same way as reports from other hosts, so a value of 0 is not

required."
::= { mldCacheEntry 6 }

mldCacheStatus OBJECT-TYPE

SYNTAX RowStatus
MAX-ACCESS read-create
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION

"The status of this row, by which new entries may be

created, or existing entries deleted from this table."
::= { mldCacheEntry 7 }

-- conformance information

mldMIBConformance
OBJECT mldMIBCompliances	IDENTIFIER	::=	{	mldMIB 2 }
OBJECT mldMIBGroups	IDENTIFIER	::=	{	mldMIBConformance 1 }
OBJECT	IDENTIFIER	::=	{	mldMIBConformance 2 }

-- compliance statements

mldHostMIBCompliance MODULE-COMPLIANCE

STATUS current
DESCRIPTION

"The compliance statement for hosts running MLD and implementing the MLD MIB."

MODULE -- this module
MANDATORY-GROUPS { mldBaseMIBGroup,

                          mldHostMIBGroup
                        }

OBJECT mldInterfaceStatus
MIN-ACCESS read-only
DESCRIPTION

"Write access is not required."

::= { mldMIBCompliances 1 }

mldRouterMIBCompliance MODULE-COMPLIANCE

STATUS current
DESCRIPTION

"The compliance statement for routers running MLD and implementing the MLD MIB."

MODULE -- this module
MANDATORY-GROUPS { mldBaseMIBGroup,

                          mldRouterMIBGroup
                        }

OBJECT mldInterfaceStatus
MIN-ACCESS read-only
DESCRIPTION

"Write access is not required."

::= { mldMIBCompliances 2 }

-- units of conformance

mldBaseMIBGroup OBJECT-GROUP

OBJECTS { mldCacheSelf,

mldCacheStatus, mldInterfaceStatus
}
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The basic collection of objects providing management of
MLD. The mldBaseMIBGroup is designed to allow for the
manager creation and deletion of MLD cache entries."
::= { mldMIBGroups 1 }

mldRouterMIBGroup OBJECT-GROUP

OBJECTS { mldCacheUpTime, mldCacheExpiryTime,

mldInterfaceQueryInterval, mldInterfaceJoins, mldInterfaceGroups, mldCacheLastReporter, mldInterfaceQuerierUpTime, mldInterfaceQuerierExpiryTime, mldInterfaceQuerier, mldInterfaceVersion, mldInterfaceQueryMaxResponseDelay, mldInterfaceRobustness,

mldInterfaceLastListenQueryIntvl
}
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"A collection of additional objects for management of MLD
in routers."
::= { mldMIBGroups 2 }

mldHostMIBGroup OBJECT-GROUP

OBJECTS

{ mldInterfaceQuerier
}

STATUS current
DESCRIPTION

"A collection of additional objects for management of MLD

in hosts."
::= { mldMIBGroups 3 }

mldProxyMIBGroup OBJECT-GROUP
	OBJECTS { mldInterfaceProxyIfIndex } STATUS current DESCRIPTION "A collection of additional objects for management of MLD proxy devices."

::= { mldMIBGroups 4 }

END

Security Considerations

This MIB contains readable objects whose values provide information related to multicast sessions. Some of these objects could contain sensitive information. In particular, the mldCacheSelf and mldCacheLastReporter could be used to identify machines which are listening to a given group address. There are also a number of objects that have a MAX-ACCESS clause of read-write and/or read- create, which allow an administrator to configure MLD in the router.

While unauthorized access to the readable objects is relatively innocuous, unauthorized access to the write-able objects could cause a denial of service. Hence, the support of SET operations in a non- secure environment without proper protection can have a negative effect on network operations.

SNMPv1 by itself is such an insecure environment. Even if the network itself is secure (for example by using IPSec), even then, there is no control as to who on the network is allowed to access and SET (change/create/delete) the objects in this MIB.

It is recommended that the implementers consider the security features as provided by the SNMPv3 framework. Specifically, the use of the User-based Security Model RFC 2574 [RFC2574] and the View- based Access Control Model RFC 2575 [RFC2575] is recommended.

It is then a customer/user responsibility to ensure that the SNMP entity giving access to this MIB, is properly configured to give access to those objects only to those principals (users) that have legitimate rights to access them.

Acknowledgements

This MIB module is based on the IGMP MIB authored by Keith McCloghrie, Dino Farinacci, and Dave Thaler. It was updated based on feedback from the IPNGWG working group, Bert Wijnen, Peder Norgaard, and extensive comments from Juergen Schoenwaelder.

References

[RFC2710]

Deering, S., Fenner, W. and B. Haberman, "Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) for IPv6", RFC 2710, October 1999.

[RFC2119]

Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.

[RFC2571]

Harrington, D., Presuhn, R. and B. Wijnen, "An Architecture for Describing SNMP Management Frameworks", RFC 2571, April 1999.

[RFC1155]

Rose, M. and K. McCloghrie, "Structure and Identification of Management Information for TCP/IP-based Internets", STD 16, RFC 1155, May 1990.

[RFC1212]

Rose, M. and K. McCloghrie, "Concise MIB Definitions", STD 16, RFC 1212, March 1991.

[RFC1215]

Rose, M., "A Convention for Defining Traps for use with the SNMP", RFC 1215, March 1991.

[RFC2578]

McCloghrie, K., Perkins, D., Schoenwaelder, J., Case, J., Rose, M. and S. Waldbusser, "Structure of Management Information Version 2 (SMIv2)", STD 58, RFC 2578, April 1999.

[RFC2579]

McCloghrie, K., Perkins, D., Schoenwaelder, J., Case, J., Rose, M. and S. Waldbusser, "Textual Conventions for SMIv2", STD 58, RFC 2579, April 1999.

[RFC2580]

McCloghrie, K., Perkins, D., Schoenwaelder, J., Case, J., Rose, M. and S. Waldbusser, "Conformance Statements for SMIv2", STD 58, RFC 2580, April 1999.

[RFC1157]

Case, J., Fedor, M., Schoffstall, M. and J. Davin, "Simple Network Management Protocol", STD 15, RFC 1157, May 1990.

[RFC1901]

Case, J., McCloghrie, K., Rose, M. and S. Waldbusser, "Introduction to Community-based SNMPv2", RFC 1901, January 1996.

[RFC1906]

Case, J., McCloghrie, K., Rose, M. and S. Waldbusser, "Transport Mappings for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)", RFC 1906, January 1996.

[RFC2572]

Case, J., Harrington D., Presuhn R. and B. Wijnen, "Message Processing and Dispatching for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)", RFC 2572, April 1999.

[RFC2574]

Blumenthal, U. and B. Wijnen, "User-based Security Model (USM) for version 3 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv3)", RFC 2574, April 1999.

[RFC1905]

Case, J., McCloghrie, K., Rose, M. and S. Waldbusser, "Protocol Operations for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)", RFC 1905, January 1996.

[RFC2573]

Levi, D., Meyer, P. and B. Stewart, "SNMPv3 Applications", RFC 2573, April 1999.

[RFC2575]

Wijnen, B., Presuhn, R. and K. McCloghrie, "View-based Access Control Model (VACM) for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)", RFC 2575, April 1999.

[RFC2570]

Case, J., Mundy, R., Partain, D. and B. Stewart, "Introduction to Version 3 of the Internet-standard Network Management Framework", RFC 2570, April 1999.

Authors' Addresses

Brian Haberman
Nortel Networks
4309 Emperor Blvd.
Suite 200
Durham, NC 27703
USA

Phone: +1-919-992-4439

EMail: haberman@nortelnetworks.com

Randy Worzella
IBM Corporation
800 Park Office Drive
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
USA

Phone: +1-919-254-2202

EMail: worzella@us.ibm.com

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