2. Revision History

2. Revision History

One of the primary purposes of this revision of the IP MIB is to create a single set of objects to describe and manage IP modules in an IP version independent manner. Where RFCs 2465 and 2466 created a set of objects independent from RFC 2011, this document merges those three documents into a single unified set of objects. The ipSystemStatsTable and ipIfStatsTable tables are examples of updating objects to be independent of IP version. Both of these tables contain counters to reflect IP traffic statistics that originated in much earlier MIBs and both include an IP address type in order to separate the information based on IP version.

Another purpose of this document is to increase the manageability of a node running IPv6 by adding new objects. Some of these tables, such as ipDefaultRouterTable, may be useful on both IPv4 and IPv6 nodes while others, such as ipv6RouterAdvertTable, are specific to a single protocol.