SMF-MIB Table View

The smfCapabilitiesTable identifies the
resident set of SMF Operational Modes and
RSSA combinations that can run on this
forwarder.

The smfCfgAddrForwardingTable is essentially a filter
table (if populated) that identifies addresses/packets
to be forwarded via the local SMF flooding process.
The IP Multicast MIB module in RFC 5132 manages objects
related to standard IP multicast, which could be running
in parallel to SMF on the device.
          
RFC 5132 manages traditional IP-based multicast (based
upon multicast routing mechanisms).  The SMF-MIB module
provides management for a MANET subnet-based flooding
mechanism that may be used for multicast transport
(through SMF broadcast) depending upon the MANET dynamics
and other factors regarding the MANET subnet.  Further,
they may coexist in certain MANET deployments
using the smfCfgAddrForwardingTable to hand certain IP
multicast addresses to the SMF process and other IP
multicast packets to be forwarded by other
multicast mechanisms that are IP route based.  SMF and
the associated SMF-MIB module are experimental and these
are some of the experiments to be had with SMF and
the SMF-MIB module.
          
This is the (conceptual) table containing information on
multicast addresses that are to be forwarded by the SMF
process.  This table represents an IP filters table for
forwarding (or not) packets based upon their IP
multicast address.
          
The SMF process can be configured to forward only those
multicast addresses found within the
smfCfgAddrForwardingTable.  As such, addresses that are
to be forwarded by the SMF process MUST be found within
the address ranges configured within this table, unless
this table is empty.
          
Each row is associated with a range of multicast
addresses, and ranges for different rows must be disjoint.
Different rows MAY share a common
smfCfgAddrForwardingGroupName to administratively
associate different rows.
          
The objects in this table are persistent and, when written,
the entity SHOULD save the change to non-volatile storage.

The SMF Interface Table describes the SMF
interfaces that are participating in the
SMF packet forwarding process.  The ifIndex is
from the interfaces group defined in the
Interfaces Group MIB module (RFC 2863).  As such,
this table 'sparse augments' the ifTable
specifically when SMF is to be configured to
operate over this interface.
          
A conceptual row in this table exists if and only
if either a manager has explicitly created the row
or there is an interface on the managed device
that automatically supports and runs SMF as part
of the device's initialization process.
          
The manager creates a row in this table by setting
the rowStatus to 'createAndGo' or 'createAndWait'.
Row objects having associated DEFVAL clauses are
          
automatically defined by the agent with these
values during row creation, unless the manager
explicitly defines these object values during the
row creation.
          
As the smfCfgInterfaceTable sparsely augments the
IfTable.  Hence,
   + an entry cannot exist in smfCfgInterfaceTable
     without a corresponding entry in the ifTable.
          
   + if an entry in the ifTable is removed, the
     corresponding entry (if it exists) in the
     smfCfgInterfaceTable MUST be removed.
          
   + the smfCfgIfStatus can have a value of
     'enabled' or 'disabled' independent of the
     current value of the ifAdminStatus of the
     corresponding entry in the ifTable.
          
The values of the objects smfCfgAdminStatus and
smfCfgIfAdminStatus reflect the up-down status of
the SMF process running on the device and on the
specific interfaces, respectively.  Hence,
   + the value of the smfCfgAdminStatus can be
     'enabled' or 'disabled' reflecting the current
     running status of the SMF process on the device.
          
   + the value of the smfCfgIfAdminStatus can be
     'enabled' or 'disabled' if the value of the
     smfCfgAdminStatus is set to 'enabled'.
          
   + if the value of the smfCfgAdminStatus is
     'disabled', then the corresponding
     smfCfgIfAdminStatus objects MUST be set
     to 'disabled' in the smfCfgInterfaceTable.
          
   + once the value of the smfCfgAdminStatus changes
     from 'disabled' to 'enabled', it is up to the
     management system to make the corresponding
     changes to the smfCfgIfAdminStatus values
     back to 'enabled'.

The SMF StateNeighborTable describes the
current one-hop neighbor nodes, their address
and SMF RSSA, and the interface on which
they can be reached.

The SMF Interface Performance Table
describes the SMF counters per
interface.

The SMF Interface Performance Table
describes the SMF counters per
interface.