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Network Working Group M. Mathis
Request for Comments: 4898 J. Heffner
Category: Standards Track Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
R. Raghunarayan
Cisco Systems
May 2007
TCP Extended Statistics MIB
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 IETF Trust (2007).
Abstract
This document describes extended performance statistics for TCP.
They are designed to use TCP's ideal vantage point to diagnose
performance problems in both the network and the application. If a
network-based application is performing poorly, TCP can determine if
the bottleneck is in the sender, the receiver, or the network itself.
If the bottleneck is in the network, TCP can provide specific
information about its nature.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction ....................................................2
2. The Internet-Standard Management Framework ......................2
3. Overview ........................................................2
3.1. MIB Initialization and Persistence .........................4
3.2. Relationship to TCP Standards ..............................4
3.3. Diagnosing SYN-Flood Denial-of-Service Attacks .............6
4. TCP Extended Statistics MIB .....................................7
5. Security Considerations ........................................69
6. IANA Considerations ............................................70
7. Normative References ...........................................70
8. Informative References .........................................72
9. Contributors ...................................................73
10. Acknowledgments ...............................................73
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1. Introduction
This document describes extended performance statistics for TCP.
They are designed to use TCP's ideal vantage point to diagnose
performance problems in both the network and the application. If a
network-based application is performing poorly, TCP can determine if
the bottleneck is in the sender, the receiver, or the network itself.
If the bottleneck is in the network, TCP can provide specific
information about its nature.
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 RFC 2119.
The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) objects defined in this
document extend TCP MIB, as specified in RFC 4022 [RFC4022]. In
addition to several new scalars and other objects, it augments two
tables and makes one clarification to RFC 4022. Existing management
stations for the TCP MIB are expected to be fully compatible with
these clarifications.
2. The Internet-Standard Management Framework
For a detailed overview of the documents that describe the current
Internet-Standard Management Framework, please refer to section 7 of
RFC 3410 [RFC3410].
Managed objects are accessed via a virtual information store, termed
the Management Information Base or MIB. MIB objects are generally
accessed through the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).
Objects in the MIB are defined using the mechanisms defined in the
Structure of Management Information (SMI). This memo specifies a MIB
module that is compliant to the SMIv2, which is described in STD 58,
RFC 2578 [RFC2578], STD 58, RFC 2579 [RFC2579] and STD 58, RFC 2580
[RFC2580].
3. Overview
The TCP-ESTATS-MIB defined in this memo consists of two groups of
scalars, seven tables, and two notifications:
* The first group of scalars contain statistics of the TCP protocol
engine not covered in RFC 4022. This group consists of the single
scalar tcpEStatsListenerTableLastChange, which provides management
stations with an easier mechanism to validate their listener
caches.
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* The second group of scalars consist of knobs to enable and disable
information collection by the tables containing connection-related
statistics/information. For example, the tcpEStatsControlPath
object controls the activation of the tcpEStatsPathTable. The
tcpEStatsConnTableLatency object determines how long connection
table rows are retained after a TCP connection transitions into
the closed state.
* The tcpEStatsListenerTable augments tcpListenerTable in TCP-MIB
[RFC4022] to provide additional information on the active TCP
listeners on a device. It supports objects to monitor and
diagnose SYN-flood denial-of-service attacks as described below.
* The tcpEStatsConnectIdTable augments the tcpConnectionTable in
TCP-MIB [RFC4022] to provide a mapping between connection 4-tuples
(which index tcpConnectionTable) and an integer connection index,
tcpEStatsConnectIndex. The connection index is used to index into
the five remaining tables in this MIB module, and is designed to
facilitate rapid polling of multiple objects associated with one
TCP connection.
* The tcpEStatsPerfTable contains objects that are useful for
measuring TCP performance and first check problem diagnosis.
* The tcpEStatsPathTable contains objects that can be used to infer
detailed behavior of the Internet path, such as the extent that
there are segment losses or reordering, etc.
* The tcpEStatsStackTable contains objects that are most useful for
determining how well the TCP control algorithms are coping with
this particular path.
* The tcpEStatsAppTable provides objects that are useful for
determining if the application using TCP is limiting TCP
performance.
* The tcpEStatsTuneTable provides per-connection controls that can
be used to work around a number of common problems that plague TCP
over some paths.
* The two notifications defined in this MIB module are
tcpEStatsEstablishNotification, indicating that a new connection
has been accepted (or established, see below), and
tcpEStatsCloseNotification, indicating that an existing connection
has recently closed.
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3.1. MIB Initialization and Persistence
The TCP protocol itself is specifically designed not to preserve any
state whatsoever across system reboots, and enforces this by
requiring randomized Initial Sequence numbers and ephemeral ports
under any conditions where segments from old connections might
corrupt new connections following a reboot.
All of the objects in the MIB MUST have the same persistence
properties as the underlying TCP implementation. On a reboot, all
zero-based counters MUST be cleared, all dynamically created table
rows MUST be deleted, and all read-write objects MUST be restored to
their default values. It is assumed that all TCP implementation have
some initialization code (if nothing else, to set IP addresses) that
has the opportunity to adjust tcpEStatsConnTableLatency and other
read-write scalars controlling the creation of the various tables,
before establishing the first TCP connection. Implementations MAY
also choose to make these control scalars persist across reboots.
The ZeroBasedCounter32 and ZeroBasedCounter64 objects in the listener
and connection tables are initialized to zero when the table row is
created.
The tcpEStatsConnTableLatency object determines how long connection
table rows are retained after a TCP connection transitions into the
closed state, to permit reading final connection completion
statistics. In RFC 4022 (TCP-MIB), the discussion of
tcpConnectionTable row latency (page 9) the words "soon after" are
understood to mean after tcpEStatsConnTableLatency, such that all
rows of all tables associated with one connection are retained at
least tcpEStatsConnTableLatency after connection close. This
clarification to RFC 4022 only applies when TCP-ESTATS-MIB is
implemented. If TCP-ESTATS-MIB is not implemented, RFC 4022 permits
an unspecified delay between connection close and row deletion.
3.2. Relationship to TCP Standards
There are more than 70 RFCs and other documents that specify various
aspects of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) [RFC4614]. While
most protocols are completely specified in one or two documents, this
has not proven to be feasible for TCP. TCP implements a reliable
end-to-end data transport service over a very weakly constrained IP
datagram service. The essential problem that TCP has to solve is
balancing the applications need for fast and reliable data transport
against the need to make fair, efficient, and equitable use of
network resources, with only sparse information about the state of
the network or its capabilities.
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TCP maintains this balance through the use of many estimators and
heuristics that regulate various aspects of the protocol. For
example, RFC 2988 describes how to calculate the retransmission timer
(RTO) from the average and variance of the network round-trip-time
(RTT), as estimated from the round-trip time sampled on some data
segments. Although these algorithms are standardized, they are a
compromise which is optimal for only common Internet environments.
Other estimators might yield better results (higher performance or
more efficient use of the network) in some environments, particularly
under uncommon conditions.
It is the consensus of the community that nearly all of the
estimators and heuristics used in TCP might be improved through
further research and development. For this reason, nearly all TCP
documents leave some latitude for future improvements, for example,
by the use of "SHOULD" instead of "MUST" [RFC2119]. Even standard
algorithms that are required because they critically effect fairness
or the dynamic stability of Internet congestion control, include some
latitude for evolution. As a consequence, there is considerable
diversity in the details of the TCP implementations actually in use
today.
The fact that the underlying algorithms are not uniform makes it
difficult to tightly specify a MIB. We could have chosen the point
of view that the MIB should publish precisely defined metrics of the
network path, even if they are different from the estimators in use
by TCP. This would make the MIB more useful as a measurement tool,
but less useful for understanding how any specific TCP implementation
is interacting with the network path and upper protocol layers. We
chose instead to have the MIB expose the estimators and important
states variables of the algorithms in use, without constraining the
TCP implementation.
As a consequence, the MIB objects are defined in terms of fairly
abstract descriptions (e.g., round-trip time), but are intended to
expose the actual estimators or other state variables as they are
used in TCP implementations, possibly transformed (e.g., scaled or
otherwise adjusted) to match the spirit of the object descriptions in
this document.
This may mean that MIB objects may not be exactly comparable between
two different TCP implementations. A general management station can
only assume the abstract descriptions, which are useful for a general
assessment of how TCP is functioning. To a TCP implementer with
detailed knowledge about the TCP implementation on a specific host,
this MIB might be useful for debugging or evaluating the algorithms
in their implementation.
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Under no conditions is this MIB intended to constrain TCP to use (or
exclude) any particular estimator, heuristic, algorithm, or
implementation.
3.3. Diagnosing SYN-Flood Denial-of-Service Attacks
The tcpEStatsListenerTable is specifically designed to provide
information that is useful for diagnosing SYN-flood Denial-of-Service
attacks, where a server is overwhelmed by forged or otherwise
malicious connection attempts. There are several different
techniques that can be used to defend against SYN-flooding but none
are standardized [Edd06]. These different techniques all have the
same basic characteristics that are instrumentable with a common set
of objects, even though the techniques differ greatly in the details.
All SYN-flood defenses avoid allocating significant resources (memory
or CPU) to incoming (passive open) connections until the connections
meet some liveness criteria (to defend against forged IP source
addresses) and the server has sufficient resources to process the
incoming request. Note that allocating resources is an
implementation-specific event that may not correspond to an
observable protocol event (e.g., segments on the wire). There are
two general concepts that can be applied to all known SYN-flood
defenses. There is generally a well-defined event when a connection
is allocated full resources, and a "backlog" -- a queue of embryonic
connections that have been allocated only partial resources.
In many implementations, incoming TCP connections are allocated
resources as a side effect of the POSIX [POSIX] accept() call. For
this reason we use the terminology "accepting a connection" to refer
to this event: committing sufficient network resources to process the
incoming request. Accepting a connection typically entails
allocating memory for the protocol control block [RFC793], the per-
connection table rows described in this MIB and CPU resources, such
as process table entries or threads.
Note that it is not useful to accept connections before they are
ESTABLISHED, because this would create an easy opportunity for
Denial-of-Service attacks, using forged source IP addresses.
The backlog consists of connections that are in SYN-RCVD or
ESTABLISHED states, that have not been accepted. For purposes of
this MIB, we assume that these connections have been allocated some
resources (e.g., an embryonic protocol control block), but not full
resources (e.g., do not yet have MIB table rows).
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Note that some SYN-Flood defenses dispense with explicit SYN-RCVD
state by cryptographically encoding the state in the ISS (initial
sequence number sent) of the SYN-ACK (sometimes called a syn-cookie),
and then using the sequence number of the first ACK to reconstruct
the SYN-RCVD state before transitioning to the ESTABLISHED state.
For these implementations there is no explicit representation of the
SYN-RCVD state, and the backlog only consists of connections that are
ESTABLISHED and are waiting to be ACCEPTED.
Furthermore, most SYN-flood defenses have some mechanism to throttle
connections that might otherwise overwhelm this endpoint. They
generally use some combination of discarding incoming SYNs and
discarding connections already in the backlog. This does not cause
all connections from legitimate clients to fail, as long as the
clients retransmit the SYN or first ACK as specified in RFC 793.
Most diversity in SYN flood defenses arise from variations in these
algorithms to limit load, and therefore cannot be instrumented with a
common standard MIB.
The Listen Table instruments all passively opened TCP connections in
terms of observable protocol events (e.g., sent and received
segments) and resource allocation events (entering the backlog and
being accepted). This approach eases generalization to SYN-flood
mechanisms that use alternate TCP state transition diagrams and
implicit mechanisms to encode some states.
4. TCP Extended Statistics MIB
This MIB module IMPORTS definitions from [RFC2578], [RFC2579],
[RFC2580], [RFC2856], [RFC4022], and [RFC4502]. It uses REFERENCE
clauses to refer to [RFC791], [RFC793], [RFC1122], [RFC1191],
[RFC1323], [RFC2018], [RFC2581], [RFC2861], [RFC2883], [RFC2988],
[RFC3168], [RFC3260], [RFC3517], [RFC3522], and [RFC3742].
TCP-ESTATS-MIB DEFINITIONS ::= BEGIN
IMPORTS
MODULE-IDENTITY, Counter32, Integer32, Unsigned32,
Gauge32, OBJECT-TYPE, mib-2,
NOTIFICATION-TYPE
FROM SNMPv2-SMI -- [RFC2578]
MODULE-COMPLIANCE, OBJECT-GROUP, NOTIFICATION-GROUP
FROM SNMPv2-CONF -- [RFC2580]
ZeroBasedCounter32
FROM RMON2-MIB -- [RFC4502]
ZeroBasedCounter64
FROM HCNUM-TC -- [RFC2856]
TEXTUAL-CONVENTION,
DateAndTime, TruthValue, TimeStamp
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FROM SNMPv2-TC -- [RFC2579]
tcpListenerEntry, tcpConnectionEntry
FROM TCP-MIB; -- [RFC4022]
tcpEStatsMIB MODULE-IDENTITY
LAST-UPDATED "200705180000Z" -- 18 May 2007
ORGANIZATION "IETF TSV Working Group"
CONTACT-INFO
"Matt Mathis
John Heffner
Web100 Project
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
300 S. Craig St.
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Email: mathis@psc.edu, jheffner@psc.edu
Rajiv Raghunarayan
Cisco Systems Inc.
San Jose, CA 95134
Phone: 408 853 9612
Email: raraghun@cisco.com
Jon Saperia
84 Kettell Plain Road
Stow, MA 01775
Phone: 617-201-2655
Email: saperia@jdscons.com "
DESCRIPTION
"Documentation of TCP Extended Performance Instrumentation
variables from the Web100 project. [Web100]
All of the objects in this MIB MUST have the same
persistence properties as the underlying TCP implementation.
On a reboot, all zero-based counters MUST be cleared, all
dynamically created table rows MUST be deleted, and all
read-write objects MUST be restored to their default values.
It is assumed that all TCP implementation have some
initialization code (if nothing else to set IP addresses)
that has the opportunity to adjust tcpEStatsConnTableLatency
and other read-write scalars controlling the creation of the
various tables, before establishing the first TCP
connection. Implementations MAY also choose to make these
control scalars persist across reboots.
Copyright (C) The IETF Trust (2007). This version
of this MIB module is a part of RFC 4898; see the RFC
itself for full legal notices."
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REVISION "200705180000Z" -- 18 May 2007
DESCRIPTION
"Initial version, published as RFC 4898."
::= { mib-2 156 }
tcpEStatsNotifications OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { tcpEStatsMIB 0 }
tcpEStatsMIBObjects OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { tcpEStatsMIB 1 }
tcpEStatsConformance OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { tcpEStatsMIB 2 }
tcpEStats OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { tcpEStatsMIBObjects 1 }
tcpEStatsControl OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { tcpEStatsMIBObjects 2 }
tcpEStatsScalar OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { tcpEStatsMIBObjects 3 }
--
-- Textual Conventions
--
TcpEStatsNegotiated ::= TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"Indicates if some optional TCP feature was negotiated.
Enabled(1) indicates that the feature was successfully
negotiated on, which generally requires both hosts to agree
to use the feature.
selfDisabled(2) indicates that the local host refused the
feature because it is not implemented, configured off, or
refused for some other reason, such as the lack of
resources.
peerDisabled(3) indicates that the local host was willing
to negotiate the feature, but the remote host did not
do so."
SYNTAX INTEGER {
enabled(1),
selfDisabled(2),
peerDisabled(3)
}
--
-- TCP Extended statistics scalars
--
tcpEStatsListenerTableLastChange OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX TimeStamp
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
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"The value of sysUpTime at the time of the last
creation or deletion of an entry in the tcpListenerTable.
If the number of entries has been unchanged since the
last re-initialization of the local network management
subsystem, then this object contains a zero value."
::= { tcpEStatsScalar 3 }
-- ================================================================
--
-- The tcpEStatsControl Group
--
-- The scalar objects in this group are used to control the
-- activation and deactivation of the TCP Extended Statistics
-- tables and notifications in this module.
--
tcpEStatsControlPath OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX TruthValue
MAX-ACCESS read-write
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"Controls the activation of the TCP Path Statistics
table.
A value 'true' indicates that the TCP Path Statistics
table is active, while 'false' indicates that the
table is inactive."
DEFVAL { false }
::= { tcpEStatsControl 1 }
tcpEStatsControlStack OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX TruthValue
MAX-ACCESS read-write
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"Controls the activation of the TCP Stack Statistics
table.
A value 'true' indicates that the TCP Stack Statistics
table is active, while 'false' indicates that the
table is inactive."
DEFVAL { false }
::= { tcpEStatsControl 2 }
tcpEStatsControlApp OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX TruthValue
MAX-ACCESS read-write
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STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"Controls the activation of the TCP Application
Statistics table.
A value 'true' indicates that the TCP Application
Statistics table is active, while 'false' indicates
that the table is inactive."
DEFVAL { false }
::= { tcpEStatsControl 3 }
tcpEStatsControlTune OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX TruthValue
MAX-ACCESS read-write
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"Controls the activation of the TCP Tuning table.
A value 'true' indicates that the TCP Tuning
table is active, while 'false' indicates that the
table is inactive."
DEFVAL { false }
::= { tcpEStatsControl 4 }
tcpEStatsControlNotify OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX TruthValue
MAX-ACCESS read-write
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"Controls the generation of all notifications defined in
this MIB.
A value 'true' indicates that the notifications
are active, while 'false' indicates that the
notifications are inactive."
DEFVAL { false }
::= { tcpEStatsControl 5 }
tcpEStatsConnTableLatency OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Unsigned32
UNITS "seconds"
MAX-ACCESS read-write
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"Specifies the number of seconds that the entity will
retain entries in the TCP connection tables, after the
connection first enters the closed state. The entity
SHOULD provide a configuration option to enable
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customization of this value. A value of 0
results in entries being removed from the tables as soon as
the connection enters the closed state. The value of
this object pertains to the following tables:
tcpEStatsConnectIdTable
tcpEStatsPerfTable
tcpEStatsPathTable
tcpEStatsStackTable
tcpEStatsAppTable
tcpEStatsTuneTable"
DEFVAL { 0 }
::= { tcpEStatsControl 6 }
-- ================================================================
--
-- Listener Table
--
tcpEStatsListenerTable OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF TcpEStatsListenerEntry
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"This table contains information about TCP Listeners,
in addition to the information maintained by the
tcpListenerTable RFC 4022."
::= { tcpEStats 1 }
tcpEStatsListenerEntry OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX TcpEStatsListenerEntry
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"Each entry in the table contains information about
a specific TCP Listener."
AUGMENTS { tcpListenerEntry }
::= { tcpEStatsListenerTable 1 }
TcpEStatsListenerEntry ::= SEQUENCE {
tcpEStatsListenerStartTime TimeStamp,
tcpEStatsListenerSynRcvd ZeroBasedCounter32,
tcpEStatsListenerInitial ZeroBasedCounter32,
tcpEStatsListenerEstablished ZeroBasedCounter32,
tcpEStatsListenerAccepted ZeroBasedCounter32,
tcpEStatsListenerExceedBacklog ZeroBasedCounter32,
tcpEStatsListenerHCSynRcvd ZeroBasedCounter64,
tcpEStatsListenerHCInitial ZeroBasedCounter64,
tcpEStatsListenerHCEstablished ZeroBasedCounter64,
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tcpEStatsListenerHCAccepted ZeroBasedCounter64,
tcpEStatsListenerHCExceedBacklog ZeroBasedCounter64,
tcpEStatsListenerCurConns Gauge32,
tcpEStatsListenerMaxBacklog Unsigned32,
tcpEStatsListenerCurBacklog Gauge32,
tcpEStatsListenerCurEstabBacklog Gauge32
}
tcpEStatsListenerStartTime OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX TimeStamp
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The value of sysUpTime at the time this listener was
established. If the current state was entered prior to
the last re-initialization of the local network management
subsystem, then this object contains a zero value."
::= { tcpEStatsListenerEntry 1 }
tcpEStatsListenerSynRcvd OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of SYNs which have been received for this
listener. The total number of failed connections for
all reasons can be estimated to be tcpEStatsListenerSynRcvd
minus tcpEStatsListenerAccepted and
tcpEStatsListenerCurBacklog."
::= { tcpEStatsListenerEntry 2 }
tcpEStatsListenerInitial OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The total number of connections for which the Listener
has allocated initial state and placed the
connection in the backlog. This may happen in the
SYN-RCVD or ESTABLISHED states, depending on the
implementation."
::= { tcpEStatsListenerEntry 3 }
tcpEStatsListenerEstablished OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
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"The number of connections that have been established to
this endpoint (e.g., the number of first ACKs that have
been received for this listener)."
::= { tcpEStatsListenerEntry 4 }
tcpEStatsListenerAccepted OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The total number of connections for which the Listener
has successfully issued an accept, removing the connection
from the backlog."
::= { tcpEStatsListenerEntry 5 }
tcpEStatsListenerExceedBacklog OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The total number of connections dropped from the
backlog by this listener due to all reasons. This
includes all connections that are allocated initial
resources, but are not accepted for some reason."
::= { tcpEStatsListenerEntry 6 }
tcpEStatsListenerHCSynRcvd OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter64
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of SYNs that have been received for this
listener on systems that can process (or reject) more
than 1 million connections per second. See
tcpEStatsListenerSynRcvd."
::= { tcpEStatsListenerEntry 7 }
tcpEStatsListenerHCInitial OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter64
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The total number of connections for which the Listener
has allocated initial state and placed the connection
in the backlog on systems that can process (or reject)
more than 1 million connections per second. See
tcpEStatsListenerInitial."
::= { tcpEStatsListenerEntry 8 }
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tcpEStatsListenerHCEstablished OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter64
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of connections that have been established to
this endpoint on systems that can process (or reject) more
than 1 million connections per second. See
tcpEStatsListenerEstablished."
::= { tcpEStatsListenerEntry 9 }
tcpEStatsListenerHCAccepted OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter64
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The total number of connections for which the Listener
has successfully issued an accept, removing the connection
from the backlog on systems that can process (or reject)
more than 1 million connections per second. See
tcpEStatsListenerAccepted."
::= { tcpEStatsListenerEntry 10 }
tcpEStatsListenerHCExceedBacklog OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter64
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The total number of connections dropped from the
backlog by this listener due to all reasons on
systems that can process (or reject) more than
1 million connections per second. See
tcpEStatsListenerExceedBacklog."
::= { tcpEStatsListenerEntry 11 }
tcpEStatsListenerCurConns OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Gauge32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The current number of connections in the ESTABLISHED
state, which have also been accepted. It excludes
connections that have been established but not accepted
because they are still subject to being discarded to
shed load without explicit action by either endpoint."
::= { tcpEStatsListenerEntry 12 }
tcpEStatsListenerMaxBacklog OBJECT-TYPE
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SYNTAX Unsigned32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The maximum number of connections allowed in the
backlog at one time."
::= { tcpEStatsListenerEntry 13 }
tcpEStatsListenerCurBacklog OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Gauge32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The current number of connections that are in the backlog.
This gauge includes connections in ESTABLISHED or
SYN-RECEIVED states for which the Listener has not yet
issued an accept.
If this listener is using some technique to implicitly
represent the SYN-RECEIVED states (e.g., by
cryptographically encoding the state information in the
initial sequence number, ISS), it MAY elect to exclude
connections in the SYN-RECEIVED state from the backlog."
::= { tcpEStatsListenerEntry 14 }
tcpEStatsListenerCurEstabBacklog OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Gauge32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The current number of connections in the backlog that are
in the ESTABLISHED state, but for which the Listener has
not yet issued an accept."
::= { tcpEStatsListenerEntry 15 }
-- ================================================================
--
-- TCP Connection ID Table
--
tcpEStatsConnectIdTable OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF TcpEStatsConnectIdEntry
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"This table maps information that uniquely identifies
each active TCP connection to the connection ID used by
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other tables in this MIB Module. It is an extension of
tcpConnectionTable in RFC 4022.
Entries are retained in this table for the number of
seconds indicated by the tcpEStatsConnTableLatency
object, after the TCP connection first enters the closed
state."
::= { tcpEStats 2 }
tcpEStatsConnectIdEntry OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX TcpEStatsConnectIdEntry
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"Each entry in this table maps a TCP connection
4-tuple to a connection index."
AUGMENTS { tcpConnectionEntry }
::= { tcpEStatsConnectIdTable 1 }
TcpEStatsConnectIdEntry ::= SEQUENCE {
tcpEStatsConnectIndex Unsigned32
}
tcpEStatsConnectIndex OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Unsigned32 (1..4294967295)
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"A unique integer value assigned to each TCP Connection
entry.
The RECOMMENDED algorithm is to begin at 1 and increase to
some implementation-specific maximum value and then start
again at 1 skipping values already in use."
::= { tcpEStatsConnectIdEntry 1 }
-- ================================================================
--
-- Basic TCP Performance Statistics
--
tcpEStatsPerfTable OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF TcpEStatsPerfEntry
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"This table contains objects that are useful for
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measuring TCP performance and first line problem
diagnosis. Most objects in this table directly expose
some TCP state variable or are easily implemented as
simple functions (e.g., the maximum value) of TCP
state variables.
Entries are retained in this table for the number of
seconds indicated by the tcpEStatsConnTableLatency
object, after the TCP connection first enters the closed
state."
::= { tcpEStats 3 }
tcpEStatsPerfEntry OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX TcpEStatsPerfEntry
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"Each entry in this table has information about the
characteristics of each active and recently closed TCP
connection."
INDEX { tcpEStatsConnectIndex }
::= { tcpEStatsPerfTable 1 }
TcpEStatsPerfEntry ::= SEQUENCE {
tcpEStatsPerfSegsOut ZeroBasedCounter32,
tcpEStatsPerfDataSegsOut ZeroBasedCounter32,
tcpEStatsPerfDataOctetsOut ZeroBasedCounter32,
tcpEStatsPerfHCDataOctetsOut ZeroBasedCounter64,
tcpEStatsPerfSegsRetrans ZeroBasedCounter32,
tcpEStatsPerfOctetsRetrans ZeroBasedCounter32,
tcpEStatsPerfSegsIn ZeroBasedCounter32,
tcpEStatsPerfDataSegsIn ZeroBasedCounter32,
tcpEStatsPerfDataOctetsIn ZeroBasedCounter32,
tcpEStatsPerfHCDataOctetsIn ZeroBasedCounter64,
tcpEStatsPerfElapsedSecs ZeroBasedCounter32,
tcpEStatsPerfElapsedMicroSecs ZeroBasedCounter32,
tcpEStatsPerfStartTimeStamp DateAndTime,
tcpEStatsPerfCurMSS Gauge32,
tcpEStatsPerfPipeSize Gauge32,
tcpEStatsPerfMaxPipeSize Gauge32,
tcpEStatsPerfSmoothedRTT Gauge32,
tcpEStatsPerfCurRTO Gauge32,
tcpEStatsPerfCongSignals ZeroBasedCounter32,
tcpEStatsPerfCurCwnd Gauge32,
tcpEStatsPerfCurSsthresh Gauge32,
tcpEStatsPerfTimeouts ZeroBasedCounter32,
tcpEStatsPerfCurRwinSent Gauge32,
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tcpEStatsPerfMaxRwinSent Gauge32,
tcpEStatsPerfZeroRwinSent ZeroBasedCounter32,
tcpEStatsPerfCurRwinRcvd Gauge32,
tcpEStatsPerfMaxRwinRcvd Gauge32,
tcpEStatsPerfZeroRwinRcvd ZeroBasedCounter32,
tcpEStatsPerfSndLimTransRwin ZeroBasedCounter32,
tcpEStatsPerfSndLimTransCwnd ZeroBasedCounter32,
tcpEStatsPerfSndLimTransSnd ZeroBasedCounter32,
tcpEStatsPerfSndLimTimeRwin ZeroBasedCounter32,
tcpEStatsPerfSndLimTimeCwnd ZeroBasedCounter32,
tcpEStatsPerfSndLimTimeSnd ZeroBasedCounter32
}
--
-- The following objects provide statistics on aggregate
-- segments and data sent on a connection. These provide a
-- direct measure of the Internet capacity consumed by a
-- connection.
--
tcpEStatsPerfSegsOut OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The total number of segments sent."
::= { tcpEStatsPerfEntry 1 }
tcpEStatsPerfDataSegsOut OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of segments sent containing a positive length
data segment."
::= { tcpEStatsPerfEntry 2 }
tcpEStatsPerfDataOctetsOut OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32
UNITS "octets"
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of octets of data contained in transmitted
segments, including retransmitted data. Note that this does
not include TCP headers."
::= { tcpEStatsPerfEntry 3 }
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tcpEStatsPerfHCDataOctetsOut OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter64
UNITS "octets"
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of octets of data contained in transmitted
segments, including retransmitted data, on systems that can
transmit more than 10 million bits per second. Note that
this does not include TCP headers."
::= { tcpEStatsPerfEntry 4 }
tcpEStatsPerfSegsRetrans OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of segments transmitted containing at least some
retransmitted data."
REFERENCE
"RFC 793, Transmission Control Protocol"
::= { tcpEStatsPerfEntry 5 }
tcpEStatsPerfOctetsRetrans OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32
UNITS "octets"
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of octets retransmitted."
REFERENCE
"RFC 793, Transmission Control Protocol"
::= { tcpEStatsPerfEntry 6 }
tcpEStatsPerfSegsIn OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The total number of segments received."
::= { tcpEStatsPerfEntry 7 }
tcpEStatsPerfDataSegsIn OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of segments received containing a positive
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length data segment."
::= { tcpEStatsPerfEntry 8 }
tcpEStatsPerfDataOctetsIn OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32
UNITS "octets"
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of octets contained in received data segments,
including retransmitted data. Note that this does not
include TCP headers."
::= { tcpEStatsPerfEntry 9 }
tcpEStatsPerfHCDataOctetsIn OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter64
UNITS "octets"
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of octets contained in received data segments,
including retransmitted data, on systems that can receive
more than 10 million bits per second. Note that this does
not include TCP headers."
::= { tcpEStatsPerfEntry 10 }
tcpEStatsPerfElapsedSecs OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32
UNITS "seconds"
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The seconds part of the time elapsed between
tcpEStatsPerfStartTimeStamp and the most recent protocol
event (segment sent or received)."
::= { tcpEStatsPerfEntry 11 }
tcpEStatsPerfElapsedMicroSecs OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32
UNITS "microseconds"
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The micro-second part of time elapsed between
tcpEStatsPerfStartTimeStamp to the most recent protocol
event (segment sent or received). This may be updated in
whatever time granularity is the system supports."
::= { tcpEStatsPerfEntry 12 }
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tcpEStatsPerfStartTimeStamp OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX DateAndTime
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"Time at which this row was created and all
ZeroBasedCounters in the row were initialized to zero."
::= { tcpEStatsPerfEntry 13 }
--
-- The following objects can be used to fit minimal
-- performance models to the TCP data rate.
--
tcpEStatsPerfCurMSS OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Gauge32
UNITS "octets"
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The current maximum segment size (MSS), in octets."
REFERENCE
"RFC 1122, Requirements for Internet Hosts - Communication
Layers"
::= { tcpEStatsPerfEntry 14 }
tcpEStatsPerfPipeSize OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Gauge32
UNITS "octets"
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The TCP senders current estimate of the number of
unacknowledged data octets in the network.
While not in recovery (e.g., while the receiver is not
reporting missing data to the sender), this is precisely the
same as 'Flight size' as defined in RFC 2581, which can be
computed as SND.NXT minus SND.UNA. [RFC793]
During recovery, the TCP sender has incomplete information
about the state of the network (e.g., which segments are
lost vs reordered, especially if the return path is also
dropping TCP acknowledgments). Current TCP standards do not
mandate any specific algorithm for estimating the number of
unacknowledged data octets in the network.
RFC 3517 describes a conservative algorithm to use SACK
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information to estimate the number of unacknowledged data
octets in the network. tcpEStatsPerfPipeSize object SHOULD
be the same as 'pipe' as defined in RFC 3517 if it is
implemented. (Note that while not in recovery the pipe
algorithm yields the same values as flight size).
If RFC 3517 is not implemented, the data octets in flight
SHOULD be estimated as SND.NXT minus SND.UNA adjusted by
some measure of the data that has left the network and
retransmitted data. For example, with Reno or NewReno style
TCP, the number of duplicate acknowledgment is used to
count the number of segments that have left the network.
That is,
PipeSize=SND.NXT-SND.UNA+(retransmits-dupacks)*CurMSS"
REFERENCE
"RFC 793, RFC 2581, RFC 3517"
::= { tcpEStatsPerfEntry 15 }
tcpEStatsPerfMaxPipeSize OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Gauge32
UNITS "octets"
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The maximum value of tcpEStatsPerfPipeSize, for this
connection."
REFERENCE
"RFC 793, RFC 2581, RFC 3517"
::= { tcpEStatsPerfEntry 16 }
tcpEStatsPerfSmoothedRTT OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Gauge32
UNITS "milliseconds"
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The smoothed round trip time used in calculation of the
RTO. See SRTT in [RFC2988]."
REFERENCE
"RFC 2988, Computing TCP's Retransmission Timer"
::= { tcpEStatsPerfEntry 17 }
tcpEStatsPerfCurRTO OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Gauge32
UNITS "milliseconds"
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
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"The current value of the retransmit timer RTO."
REFERENCE
"RFC 2988, Computing TCP's Retransmission Timer"
::= { tcpEStatsPerfEntry 18 }
tcpEStatsPerfCongSignals OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of multiplicative downward congestion window
adjustments due to all forms of congestion signals,
including Fast Retransmit, Explicit Congestion Notification
(ECN), and timeouts. This object summarizes all events that
invoke the MD portion of Additive Increase Multiplicative
Decrease (AIMD) congestion control, and as such is the best
indicator of how a cwnd is being affected by congestion.
Note that retransmission timeouts multiplicatively reduce
the window implicitly by setting ssthresh, and SHOULD be
included in tcpEStatsPerfCongSignals. In order to minimize
spurious congestion indications due to out-of-order
segments, tcpEStatsPerfCongSignals SHOULD be incremented in
association with the Fast Retransmit algorithm."
REFERENCE
"RFC 2581, TCP Congestion Control"
::= { tcpEStatsPerfEntry 19 }
tcpEStatsPerfCurCwnd OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Gauge32
UNITS "octets"
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The current congestion window, in octets."
REFERENCE
"RFC 2581, TCP Congestion Control"
::= { tcpEStatsPerfEntry 20 }
tcpEStatsPerfCurSsthresh OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Gauge32
UNITS "octets"
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The current slow start threshold in octets."
REFERENCE
"RFC 2581, TCP Congestion Control"
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::= { tcpEStatsPerfEntry 21 }
tcpEStatsPerfTimeouts OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of times the retransmit timeout has expired when
the RTO backoff multiplier is equal to one."
REFERENCE
"RFC 2988, Computing TCP's Retransmission Timer"
::= { tcpEStatsPerfEntry 22 }
--
-- The following objects instrument receiver window updates
-- sent by the local receiver to the remote sender. These can
-- be used to determine if the local receiver is exerting flow
-- control back pressure on the remote sender.
--
tcpEStatsPerfCurRwinSent OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Gauge32
UNITS "octets"
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The most recent window advertisement sent, in octets."
REFERENCE
"RFC 793, Transmission Control Protocol"
::= { tcpEStatsPerfEntry 23 }
tcpEStatsPerfMaxRwinSent OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Gauge32
UNITS "octets"
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The maximum window advertisement sent, in octets."
REFERENCE
"RFC 793, Transmission Control Protocol"
::= { tcpEStatsPerfEntry 24 }
tcpEStatsPerfZeroRwinSent OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of acknowledgments sent announcing a zero
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receive window, when the previously announced window was
not zero."
REFERENCE
"RFC 793, Transmission Control Protocol"
::= { tcpEStatsPerfEntry 25 }
--
-- The following objects instrument receiver window updates
-- from the far end-system to determine if the remote receiver
-- has sufficient buffer space or is exerting flow-control
-- back pressure on the local sender.
--
tcpEStatsPerfCurRwinRcvd OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Gauge32
UNITS "octets"
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The most recent window advertisement received, in octets."
REFERENCE
"RFC 793, Transmission Control Protocol"
::= { tcpEStatsPerfEntry 26 }
tcpEStatsPerfMaxRwinRcvd OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Gauge32
UNITS "octets"
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The maximum window advertisement received, in octets."
REFERENCE
"RFC 793, Transmission Control Protocol"
::= { tcpEStatsPerfEntry 27 }
tcpEStatsPerfZeroRwinRcvd OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of acknowledgments received announcing a zero
receive window, when the previously announced window was
not zero."
REFERENCE
"RFC 793, Transmission Control Protocol"
::= { tcpEStatsPerfEntry 28 }
--
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-- The following optional objects can be used to quickly
-- identify which subsystems are limiting TCP performance.
-- There are three parallel pairs of instruments that measure
-- the extent to which TCP performance is limited by the
-- announced receiver window (indicating a receiver
-- bottleneck), the current congestion window or
-- retransmission timeout (indicating a path bottleneck) and
-- all others events (indicating a sender bottleneck).
--
-- These instruments SHOULD be updated every time the TCP
-- output routine stops sending data. The elapsed time since
-- the previous stop is accumulated into the appropriate
-- object as determined by the previous stop reason (e.g.,
-- stop state). The current stop reason determines which timer
-- will be updated the next time TCP output stops.
--
-- Since there is no explicit stop at the beginning of a
-- timeout, it is necessary to retroactively reclassify the
-- previous stop as 'Congestion Limited'.
--
tcpEStatsPerfSndLimTransRwin OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of transitions into the 'Receiver Limited' state
from either the 'Congestion Limited' or 'Sender Limited'
states. This state is entered whenever TCP transmission
stops because the sender has filled the announced receiver
window, i.e., when SND.NXT has advanced to SND.UNA +
SND.WND - 1 as described in RFC 793."
REFERENCE
"RFC 793, Transmission Control Protocol"
::= { tcpEStatsPerfEntry 31 }
tcpEStatsPerfSndLimTransCwnd OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of transitions into the 'Congestion Limited'
state from either the 'Receiver Limited' or 'Sender
Limited' states. This state is entered whenever TCP
transmission stops because the sender has reached some
limit defined by congestion control (e.g., cwnd) or other
algorithms (retransmission timeouts) designed to control
network traffic. See the definition of 'CONGESTION WINDOW'
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in RFC 2581."
REFERENCE
"RFC 2581, TCP Congestion Control"
::= { tcpEStatsPerfEntry 32 }
tcpEStatsPerfSndLimTransSnd OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of transitions into the 'Sender Limited' state
from either the 'Receiver Limited' or 'Congestion Limited'
states. This state is entered whenever TCP transmission
stops due to some sender limit such as running out of
application data or other resources and the Karn algorithm.
When TCP stops sending data for any reason, which cannot be
classified as Receiver Limited or Congestion Limited, it
MUST be treated as Sender Limited."
::= { tcpEStatsPerfEntry 33 }
tcpEStatsPerfSndLimTimeRwin OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32
UNITS "milliseconds"
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The cumulative time spent in the 'Receiver Limited' state.
See tcpEStatsPerfSndLimTransRwin."
::= { tcpEStatsPerfEntry 34 }
tcpEStatsPerfSndLimTimeCwnd OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32
UNITS "milliseconds"
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The cumulative time spent in the 'Congestion Limited'
state. See tcpEStatsPerfSndLimTransCwnd. When there is a
retransmission timeout, it SHOULD be counted in
tcpEStatsPerfSndLimTimeCwnd (and not the cumulative time
for some other state.)"
::= { tcpEStatsPerfEntry 35 }
tcpEStatsPerfSndLimTimeSnd OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32
UNITS "milliseconds"
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
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DESCRIPTION
"The cumulative time spent in the 'Sender Limited' state.
See tcpEStatsPerfSndLimTransSnd."
::= { tcpEStatsPerfEntry 36 }
-- ================================================================
--
-- Statistics for diagnosing path problems
--
tcpEStatsPathTable OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF TcpEStatsPathEntry
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"This table contains objects that can be used to infer
detailed behavior of the Internet path, such as the
extent that there is reordering, ECN bits, and if
RTT fluctuations are correlated to losses.
Entries are retained in this table for the number of
seconds indicated by the tcpEStatsConnTableLatency
object, after the TCP connection first enters the closed
state."
::= { tcpEStats 4 }
tcpEStatsPathEntry OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX TcpEStatsPathEntry
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"Each entry in this table has information about the
characteristics of each active and recently closed TCP
connection."
INDEX { tcpEStatsConnectIndex }
::= { tcpEStatsPathTable 1 }
TcpEStatsPathEntry ::= SEQUENCE {
tcpEStatsPathRetranThresh Gauge32,
tcpEStatsPathNonRecovDAEpisodes ZeroBasedCounter32,
tcpEStatsPathSumOctetsReordered ZeroBasedCounter32,
tcpEStatsPathNonRecovDA ZeroBasedCounter32,
tcpEStatsPathSampleRTT Gauge32,
tcpEStatsPathRTTVar Gauge32,
tcpEStatsPathMaxRTT Gauge32,
tcpEStatsPathMinRTT Gauge32,
tcpEStatsPathSumRTT ZeroBasedCounter32,
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tcpEStatsPathHCSumRTT ZeroBasedCounter64,
tcpEStatsPathCountRTT ZeroBasedCounter32,
tcpEStatsPathMaxRTO Gauge32,
tcpEStatsPathMinRTO Gauge32,
tcpEStatsPathIpTtl Unsigned32,
tcpEStatsPathIpTosIn OCTET STRING,
tcpEStatsPathIpTosOut OCTET STRING,
tcpEStatsPathPreCongSumCwnd ZeroBasedCounter32,
tcpEStatsPathPreCongSumRTT ZeroBasedCounter32,
tcpEStatsPathPostCongSumRTT ZeroBasedCounter32,
tcpEStatsPathPostCongCountRTT ZeroBasedCounter32,
tcpEStatsPathECNsignals ZeroBasedCounter32,
tcpEStatsPathDupAckEpisodes ZeroBasedCounter32,
tcpEStatsPathRcvRTT Gauge32,
tcpEStatsPathDupAcksOut ZeroBasedCounter32,
tcpEStatsPathCERcvd ZeroBasedCounter32,
tcpEStatsPathECESent ZeroBasedCounter32
}
--
-- The following optional objects can be used to infer segment
-- reordering on the path from the local sender to the remote
-- receiver.
--
tcpEStatsPathRetranThresh OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Gauge32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of duplicate acknowledgments required to trigger
Fast Retransmit. Note that although this is constant in
traditional Reno TCP implementations, it is adaptive in
many newer TCPs."
REFERENCE
"RFC 2581, TCP Congestion Control"
::= { tcpEStatsPathEntry 1 }
tcpEStatsPathNonRecovDAEpisodes OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of duplicate acknowledgment episodes that did
not trigger a Fast Retransmit because ACK advanced prior to
the number of duplicate acknowledgments reaching
RetranThresh.
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In many implementations this is the number of times the
'dupacks' counter is set to zero when it is non-zero but
less than RetranThresh.
Note that the change in tcpEStatsPathNonRecovDAEpisodes
divided by the change in tcpEStatsPerfDataSegsOut is an
estimate of the frequency of data reordering on the forward
path over some interval."
REFERENCE
"RFC 2581, TCP Congestion Control"
::= { tcpEStatsPathEntry 2 }
tcpEStatsPathSumOctetsReordered OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32
UNITS "octets"
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The sum of the amounts SND.UNA advances on the
acknowledgment which ends a dup-ack episode without a
retransmission.
Note the change in tcpEStatsPathSumOctetsReordered divided
by the change in tcpEStatsPathNonRecovDAEpisodes is an
estimates of the average reordering distance, over some
interval."
::= { tcpEStatsPathEntry 3 }
tcpEStatsPathNonRecovDA OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"Duplicate acks (or SACKS) that did not trigger a Fast
Retransmit because ACK advanced prior to the number of
duplicate acknowledgments reaching RetranThresh.
In many implementations, this is the sum of the 'dupacks'
counter, just before it is set to zero because ACK advanced
without a Fast Retransmit.
Note that the change in tcpEStatsPathNonRecovDA divided by
the change in tcpEStatsPathNonRecovDAEpisodes is an
estimate of the average reordering distance in segments
over some interval."
REFERENCE
"RFC 2581, TCP Congestion Control"
::= { tcpEStatsPathEntry 4 }
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--
-- The following optional objects instrument the round trip
-- time estimator and the retransmission timeout timer.
--
tcpEStatsPathSampleRTT OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Gauge32
UNITS "milliseconds"
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The most recent raw round trip time measurement used in
calculation of the RTO."
REFERENCE
"RFC 2988, Computing TCP's Retransmission Timer"
::= { tcpEStatsPathEntry 11 }
tcpEStatsPathRTTVar OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Gauge32
UNITS "milliseconds"
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The round trip time variation used in calculation of the
RTO. See RTTVAR in [RFC2988]."
REFERENCE
"RFC 2988, Computing TCP's Retransmission Timer"
::= { tcpEStatsPathEntry 12 }
tcpEStatsPathMaxRTT OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Gauge32
UNITS "milliseconds"
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The maximum sampled round trip time."
REFERENCE
"RFC 2988, Computing TCP's Retransmission Timer"
::= { tcpEStatsPathEntry 13 }
tcpEStatsPathMinRTT OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Gauge32
UNITS "milliseconds"
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The minimum sampled round trip time."
REFERENCE
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"RFC 2988, Computing TCP's Retransmission Timer"
::= { tcpEStatsPathEntry 14 }
tcpEStatsPathSumRTT OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32
UNITS "milliseconds"
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The sum of all sampled round trip times.
Note that the change in tcpEStatsPathSumRTT divided by the
change in tcpEStatsPathCountRTT is the mean RTT, uniformly
averaged over an enter interval."
REFERENCE
"RFC 2988, Computing TCP's Retransmission Timer"
::= { tcpEStatsPathEntry 15 }
tcpEStatsPathHCSumRTT OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter64
UNITS "milliseconds"
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The sum of all sampled round trip times, on all systems
that implement multiple concurrent RTT measurements.
Note that the change in tcpEStatsPathHCSumRTT divided by
the change in tcpEStatsPathCountRTT is the mean RTT,
uniformly averaged over an enter interval."
REFERENCE
"RFC 2988, Computing TCP's Retransmission Timer"
::= { tcpEStatsPathEntry 16 }
tcpEStatsPathCountRTT OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of round trip time samples included in
tcpEStatsPathSumRTT and tcpEStatsPathHCSumRTT."
REFERENCE
"RFC 2988, Computing TCP's Retransmission Timer"
::= { tcpEStatsPathEntry 17 }
tcpEStatsPathMaxRTO OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Gauge32
UNITS "milliseconds"
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MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The maximum value of the retransmit timer RTO."
REFERENCE
"RFC 2988, Computing TCP's Retransmission Timer"
::= { tcpEStatsPathEntry 18 }
tcpEStatsPathMinRTO OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Gauge32
UNITS "milliseconds"
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The minimum value of the retransmit timer RTO."
REFERENCE
"RFC 2988, Computing TCP's Retransmission Timer"
::= { tcpEStatsPathEntry 19 }
--
-- The following optional objects provide information about
-- how TCP is using the IP layer.
--
tcpEStatsPathIpTtl OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Unsigned32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The value of the TTL field carried in the most recently
received IP header. This is sometimes useful to detect
changing or unstable routes."
REFERENCE
"RFC 791, Internet Protocol"
::= { tcpEStatsPathEntry 20 }
tcpEStatsPathIpTosIn OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX OCTET STRING (SIZE(1))
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The value of the IPv4 Type of Service octet, or the IPv6
traffic class octet, carried in the most recently received
IP header.
This is useful to diagnose interactions between TCP and any
IP layer packet scheduling and delivery policy, which might
be in effect to implement Diffserv."
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REFERENCE
"RFC 3260, New Terminology and Clarifications for Diffserv"
::= { tcpEStatsPathEntry 21 }
tcpEStatsPathIpTosOut OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX OCTET STRING (SIZE(1))
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The value of the IPv4 Type Of Service octet, or the IPv6
traffic class octet, carried in the most recently
transmitted IP header.
This is useful to diagnose interactions between TCP and any
IP layer packet scheduling and delivery policy, which might
be in effect to implement Diffserv."
REFERENCE
"RFC 3260, New Terminology and Clarifications for Diffserv"
::= { tcpEStatsPathEntry 22 }
--
-- The following optional objects characterize the congestion
-- feedback signals by collecting statistics on how the
-- congestion events are correlated to losses, changes in RTT
-- and other protocol events.
--
tcpEStatsPathPreCongSumCwnd OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32
UNITS "octets"
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The sum of the values of the congestion window, in octets,
captured each time a congestion signal is received. This
MUST be updated each time tcpEStatsPerfCongSignals is
incremented, such that the change in
tcpEStatsPathPreCongSumCwnd divided by the change in
tcpEStatsPerfCongSignals is the average window (over some
interval) just prior to a congestion signal."
::= { tcpEStatsPathEntry 23 }
tcpEStatsPathPreCongSumRTT OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32
UNITS "milliseconds"
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
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"Sum of the last sample of the RTT (tcpEStatsPathSampleRTT)
prior to the received congestion signals. This MUST be
updated each time tcpEStatsPerfCongSignals is incremented,
such that the change in tcpEStatsPathPreCongSumRTT divided by
the change in tcpEStatsPerfCongSignals is the average RTT
(over some interval) just prior to a congestion signal."
::= { tcpEStatsPathEntry 24 }
tcpEStatsPathPostCongSumRTT OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32
UNITS "octets"
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"Sum of the first sample of the RTT (tcpEStatsPathSampleRTT)
following each congestion signal. Such that the change in
tcpEStatsPathPostCongSumRTT divided by the change in
tcpEStatsPathPostCongCountRTT is the average RTT (over some
interval) just after a congestion signal."
::= { tcpEStatsPathEntry 25 }
tcpEStatsPathPostCongCountRTT OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32
UNITS "milliseconds"
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of RTT samples included in
tcpEStatsPathPostCongSumRTT such that the change in
tcpEStatsPathPostCongSumRTT divided by the change in
tcpEStatsPathPostCongCountRTT is the average RTT (over some
interval) just after a congestion signal."
::= { tcpEStatsPathEntry 26 }
--
-- The following optional objects can be used to detect other
-- types of non-loss congestion signals such as source quench
-- or ECN.
--
tcpEStatsPathECNsignals OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of congestion signals delivered to the TCP
sender via explicit congestion notification (ECN). This is
typically the number of segments bearing Echo Congestion
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Experienced (ECE) bits, but
should also include segments failing the ECN nonce check or
other explicit congestion signals."
REFERENCE
"RFC 3168, The Addition of Explicit Congestion Notification
(ECN) to IP"
::= { tcpEStatsPathEntry 27 }
--
-- The following optional objects are receiver side
-- instruments of the path from the sender to the receiver. In
-- general, the receiver has less information about the state
-- of the path because the receiver does not have a robust
-- mechanism to infer the sender's actions.
--
tcpEStatsPathDupAckEpisodes OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of Duplicate Acks Sent when prior Ack was not
duplicate. This is the number of times that a contiguous
series of duplicate acknowledgments have been sent.
This is an indication of the number of data segments lost
or reordered on the path from the remote TCP endpoint to
the near TCP endpoint."
REFERENCE
"RFC 2581, TCP Congestion Control"
::= { tcpEStatsPathEntry 28 }
tcpEStatsPathRcvRTT OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Gauge32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The receiver's estimate of the Path RTT.
Adaptive receiver window algorithms depend on the receiver
to having a good estimate of the path RTT."
::= { tcpEStatsPathEntry 29 }
tcpEStatsPathDupAcksOut OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
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"The number of duplicate ACKs sent. The ratio of the change
in tcpEStatsPathDupAcksOut to the change in
tcpEStatsPathDupAckEpisodes is an indication of reorder or
recovery distance over some interval."
REFERENCE
"RFC 2581, TCP Congestion Control"
::= { tcpEStatsPathEntry 30 }
tcpEStatsPathCERcvd OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of segments received with IP headers bearing
Congestion Experienced (CE) markings."
REFERENCE
"RFC 3168, The Addition of Explicit Congestion Notification
(ECN) to IP"
::= { tcpEStatsPathEntry 31 }
tcpEStatsPathECESent OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"Number of times the Echo Congestion Experienced (ECE) bit
in the TCP header has been set (transitioned from 0 to 1),
due to a Congestion Experienced (CE) marking on an IP
header. Note that ECE can be set and reset only once per
RTT, while CE can be set on many segments per RTT."
REFERENCE
"RFC 3168, The Addition of Explicit Congestion Notification
(ECN) to IP"
::= { tcpEStatsPathEntry 32 }
-- ================================================================
--
-- Statistics for diagnosing stack algorithms
--
tcpEStatsStackTable OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF TcpEStatsStackEntry
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"This table contains objects that are most useful for
determining how well some of the TCP control
algorithms are coping with this particular
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path.
Entries are retained in this table for the number of
seconds indicated by the tcpEStatsConnTableLatency
object, after the TCP connection first enters the closed
state."
::= { tcpEStats 5 }
tcpEStatsStackEntry OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX TcpEStatsStackEntry
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"Each entry in this table has information about the
characteristics of each active and recently closed TCP
connection."
INDEX { tcpEStatsConnectIndex }
::= { tcpEStatsStackTable 1 }
TcpEStatsStackEntry ::= SEQUENCE {
tcpEStatsStackActiveOpen TruthValue,
tcpEStatsStackMSSSent Unsigned32,
tcpEStatsStackMSSRcvd Unsigned32,
tcpEStatsStackWinScaleSent Integer32,
tcpEStatsStackWinScaleRcvd Integer32,
tcpEStatsStackTimeStamps TcpEStatsNegotiated,
tcpEStatsStackECN TcpEStatsNegotiated,
tcpEStatsStackWillSendSACK TcpEStatsNegotiated,
tcpEStatsStackWillUseSACK TcpEStatsNegotiated,
tcpEStatsStackState INTEGER,
tcpEStatsStackNagle TruthValue,
tcpEStatsStackMaxSsCwnd Gauge32,
tcpEStatsStackMaxCaCwnd Gauge32,
tcpEStatsStackMaxSsthresh Gauge32,
tcpEStatsStackMinSsthresh Gauge32,
tcpEStatsStackInRecovery INTEGER,
tcpEStatsStackDupAcksIn ZeroBasedCounter32,
tcpEStatsStackSpuriousFrDetected ZeroBasedCounter32,
tcpEStatsStackSpuriousRtoDetected ZeroBasedCounter32,
tcpEStatsStackSoftErrors ZeroBasedCounter32,
tcpEStatsStackSoftErrorReason INTEGER,
tcpEStatsStackSlowStart ZeroBasedCounter32,
tcpEStatsStackCongAvoid ZeroBasedCounter32,
tcpEStatsStackOtherReductions ZeroBasedCounter32,
tcpEStatsStackCongOverCount ZeroBasedCounter32,
tcpEStatsStackFastRetran ZeroBasedCounter32,
tcpEStatsStackSubsequentTimeouts ZeroBasedCounter32,
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tcpEStatsStackCurTimeoutCount Gauge32,
tcpEStatsStackAbruptTimeouts ZeroBasedCounter32,
tcpEStatsStackSACKsRcvd ZeroBasedCounter32,
tcpEStatsStackSACKBlocksRcvd ZeroBasedCounter32,
tcpEStatsStackSendStall ZeroBasedCounter32,
tcpEStatsStackDSACKDups ZeroBasedCounter32,
tcpEStatsStackMaxMSS Gauge32,
tcpEStatsStackMinMSS Gauge32,
tcpEStatsStackSndInitial Unsigned32,
tcpEStatsStackRecInitial Unsigned32,
tcpEStatsStackCurRetxQueue Gauge32,
tcpEStatsStackMaxRetxQueue Gauge32,
tcpEStatsStackCurReasmQueue Gauge32,
tcpEStatsStackMaxReasmQueue Gauge32
}
--
-- The following objects reflect TCP options carried on the
-- SYN or SYN-ACK. These options are used to provide
-- additional protocol parameters or to enable various
-- optional TCP features or algorithms.
--
-- Except as noted, the TCP protocol does not permit these
-- options to change after the SYN exchange.
--
tcpEStatsStackActiveOpen OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX TruthValue
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"True(1) if the local connection traversed the SYN-SENT
state, else false(2)."
REFERENCE
"RFC 793, Transmission Control Protocol"
::= { tcpEStatsStackEntry 1 }
tcpEStatsStackMSSSent OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Unsigned32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The value sent in an MSS option, or zero if none."
REFERENCE
"RFC 1122, Requirements for Internet Hosts - Communication
Layers"
::= { tcpEStatsStackEntry 2 }
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tcpEStatsStackMSSRcvd OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Unsigned32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The value received in an MSS option, or zero if none."
REFERENCE
"RFC 1122, Requirements for Internet Hosts - Communication
Layers"
::= { tcpEStatsStackEntry 3 }
tcpEStatsStackWinScaleSent OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Integer32 (-1..14)
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The value of the transmitted window scale option if one was
sent; otherwise, a value of -1.
Note that if both tcpEStatsStackWinScaleSent and
tcpEStatsStackWinScaleRcvd are not -1, then Rcv.Wind.Scale
will be the same as this value and used to scale receiver
window announcements from the local host to the remote
host."
REFERENCE
"RFC 1323, TCP Extensions for High Performance"
::= { tcpEStatsStackEntry 4 }
tcpEStatsStackWinScaleRcvd OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Integer32 (-1..14)
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The value of the received window scale option if one was
received; otherwise, a value of -1.
Note that if both tcpEStatsStackWinScaleSent and
tcpEStatsStackWinScaleRcvd are not -1, then Snd.Wind.Scale
will be the same as this value and used to scale receiver
window announcements from the remote host to the local
host."
REFERENCE
"RFC 1323, TCP Extensions for High Performance"
::= { tcpEStatsStackEntry 5 }
tcpEStatsStackTimeStamps OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX TcpEStatsNegotiated
MAX-ACCESS read-only
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STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"Enabled(1) if TCP timestamps have been negotiated on,
selfDisabled(2) if they are disabled or not implemented on
the local host, or peerDisabled(3) if not negotiated by the
remote hosts."
REFERENCE
"RFC 1323, TCP Extensions for High Performance"
::= { tcpEStatsStackEntry 6 }
tcpEStatsStackECN OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX TcpEStatsNegotiated
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"Enabled(1) if Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) has
been negotiated on, selfDisabled(2) if it is disabled or
not implemented on the local host, or peerDisabled(3) if
not negotiated by the remote hosts."
REFERENCE
"RFC 3168, The Addition of Explicit Congestion Notification
(ECN) to IP"
::= { tcpEStatsStackEntry 7 }
tcpEStatsStackWillSendSACK OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX TcpEStatsNegotiated
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"Enabled(1) if the local host will send SACK options,
selfDisabled(2) if SACK is disabled or not implemented on
the local host, or peerDisabled(3) if the remote host did
not send the SACK-permitted option.
Note that SACK negotiation is not symmetrical. SACK can
enabled on one side of the connection and not the other."
REFERENCE
"RFC 2018, TCP Selective Acknowledgement Options"
::= { tcpEStatsStackEntry 8 }
tcpEStatsStackWillUseSACK OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX TcpEStatsNegotiated
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"Enabled(1) if the local host will process SACK options,
selfDisabled(2) if SACK is disabled or not implemented on
the local host, or peerDisabled(3) if the remote host sends
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duplicate ACKs without SACK options, or the local host
otherwise decides not to process received SACK options.
Unlike other TCP options, the remote data receiver cannot
explicitly indicate if it is able to generate SACK options.
When sending data, the local host has to deduce if the
remote receiver is sending SACK options. This object can
transition from Enabled(1) to peerDisabled(3) after the SYN
exchange.
Note that SACK negotiation is not symmetrical. SACK can
enabled on one side of the connection and not the other."
REFERENCE
"RFC 2018, TCP Selective Acknowledgement Options"
::= { tcpEStatsStackEntry 9 }
--
-- The following two objects reflect the current state of the
-- connection.
--
tcpEStatsStackState OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX INTEGER {
tcpESStateClosed(1),
tcpESStateListen(2),
tcpESStateSynSent(3),
tcpESStateSynReceived(4),
tcpESStateEstablished(5),
tcpESStateFinWait1(6),
tcpESStateFinWait2(7),
tcpESStateCloseWait(8),
tcpESStateLastAck(9),
tcpESStateClosing(10),
tcpESStateTimeWait(11),
tcpESStateDeleteTcb(12)
}
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"An integer value representing the connection state from the
TCP State Transition Diagram.
The value listen(2) is included only for parallelism to the
old tcpConnTable, and SHOULD NOT be used because the listen
state in managed by the tcpListenerTable.
The value DeleteTcb(12) is included only for parallelism to
the tcpConnTable mechanism for terminating connections,
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although this table does not permit writing."
REFERENCE
"RFC 793, Transmission Control Protocol"
::= { tcpEStatsStackEntry 10 }
tcpEStatsStackNagle OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX TruthValue
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"True(1) if the Nagle algorithm is being used, else
false(2)."
REFERENCE
"RFC 1122, Requirements for Internet Hosts - Communication
Layers"
::= { tcpEStatsStackEntry 11 }
--
-- The following objects instrument the overall operation of
-- TCP congestion control and data retransmissions. These
-- instruments are sufficient to fit the actual performance to
-- an updated macroscopic performance model [RFC2581] [Mat97]
-- [Pad98].
--
tcpEStatsStackMaxSsCwnd OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Gauge32
UNITS "octets"
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The maximum congestion window used during Slow Start, in
octets."
REFERENCE
"RFC 2581, TCP Congestion Control"
::= { tcpEStatsStackEntry 12 }
tcpEStatsStackMaxCaCwnd OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Gauge32
UNITS "octets"
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The maximum congestion window used during Congestion
Avoidance, in octets."
REFERENCE
"RFC 2581, TCP Congestion Control"
::= { tcpEStatsStackEntry 13 }
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tcpEStatsStackMaxSsthresh OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Gauge32
UNITS "octets"
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The maximum slow start threshold, excluding the initial
value."
REFERENCE
"RFC 2581, TCP Congestion Control"
::= { tcpEStatsStackEntry 14 }
tcpEStatsStackMinSsthresh OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Gauge32
UNITS "octets"
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The minimum slow start threshold."
REFERENCE
"RFC 2581, TCP Congestion Control"
::= { tcpEStatsStackEntry 15 }
tcpEStatsStackInRecovery OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX INTEGER {
tcpESDataContiguous(1),
tcpESDataUnordered(2),
tcpESDataRecovery(3)
}
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"An integer value representing the state of the loss
recovery for this connection.
tcpESDataContiguous(1) indicates that the remote receiver
is reporting contiguous data (no duplicate acknowledgments
or SACK options) and that there are no unacknowledged
retransmissions.
tcpESDataUnordered(2) indicates that the remote receiver is
reporting missing or out-of-order data (e.g., sending
duplicate acknowledgments or SACK options) and that there
are no unacknowledged retransmissions (because the missing
data has not yet been retransmitted).
tcpESDataRecovery(3) indicates that the sender has
outstanding retransmitted data that is still
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unacknowledged."
REFERENCE
"RFC 2581, TCP Congestion Control"
::= { tcpEStatsStackEntry 16 }
tcpEStatsStackDupAcksIn OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of duplicate ACKs received."
REFERENCE
"RFC 2581, TCP Congestion Control"
::= { tcpEStatsStackEntry 17 }
tcpEStatsStackSpuriousFrDetected OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of acknowledgments reporting out-of-order
segments after the Fast Retransmit algorithm has already
retransmitted the segments. (For example as detected by the
Eifel algorithm).'"
REFERENCE
"RFC 3522, The Eifel Detection Algorithm for TCP"
::= { tcpEStatsStackEntry 18 }
tcpEStatsStackSpuriousRtoDetected OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of acknowledgments reporting segments that have
already been retransmitted due to a Retransmission Timeout."
::= { tcpEStatsStackEntry 19 }
--
-- The following optional objects instrument unusual protocol
-- events that probably indicate implementation problems in
-- the protocol or path.
--
tcpEStatsStackSoftErrors OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
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"The number of segments that fail various consistency tests
during TCP input processing. Soft errors might cause the
segment to be discarded but some do not. Some of these soft
errors cause the generation of a TCP acknowledgment, while
others are silently discarded."
REFERENCE
"RFC 793, Transmission Control Protocol"
::= { tcpEStatsStackEntry 21 }
tcpEStatsStackSoftErrorReason OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX INTEGER {
belowDataWindow(1),
aboveDataWindow(2),
belowAckWindow(3),
aboveAckWindow(4),
belowTSWindow(5),
aboveTSWindow(6),
dataCheckSum(7),
otherSoftError(8)
}
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"This object identifies which consistency test most recently
failed during TCP input processing. This object SHOULD be
set every time tcpEStatsStackSoftErrors is incremented. The
codes are as follows:
belowDataWindow(1) - All data in the segment is below
SND.UNA. (Normal for keep-alives and zero window probes).
aboveDataWindow(2) - Some data in the segment is above
SND.WND. (Indicates an implementation bug or possible
attack).
belowAckWindow(3) - ACK below SND.UNA. (Indicates that the
return path is reordering ACKs)
aboveAckWindow(4) - An ACK for data that we have not sent.
(Indicates an implementation bug or possible attack).
belowTSWindow(5) - TSecr on the segment is older than the
current TS.Recent (Normal for the rare case where PAWS
detects data reordered by the network).
aboveTSWindow(6) - TSecr on the segment is newer than the
current TS.Recent. (Indicates an implementation bug or
possible attack).
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dataCheckSum(7) - Incorrect checksum. Note that this value
is intrinsically fragile, because the header fields used to
identify the connection may have been corrupted.
otherSoftError(8) - All other soft errors not listed
above."
REFERENCE
"RFC 793, Transmission Control Protocol"
::= { tcpEStatsStackEntry 22 }
--
-- The following optional objects expose the detailed
-- operation of the congestion control algorithms.
--
tcpEStatsStackSlowStart OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of times the congestion window has been
increased by the Slow Start algorithm."
REFERENCE
"RFC 2581, TCP Congestion Control"
::= { tcpEStatsStackEntry 23 }
tcpEStatsStackCongAvoid OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of times the congestion window has been
increased by the Congestion Avoidance algorithm."
REFERENCE
"RFC 2581, TCP Congestion Control"
::= { tcpEStatsStackEntry 24 }
tcpEStatsStackOtherReductions OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of congestion window reductions made as a result
of anything other than AIMD congestion control algorithms.
Examples of non-multiplicative window reductions include
Congestion Window Validation [RFC2861] and experimental
algorithms such as Vegas [Bra94].
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All window reductions MUST be counted as either
tcpEStatsPerfCongSignals or tcpEStatsStackOtherReductions."
REFERENCE
"RFC 2861, TCP Congestion Window Validation"
::= { tcpEStatsStackEntry 25 }
tcpEStatsStackCongOverCount OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of congestion events that were 'backed out' of
the congestion control state machine such that the
congestion window was restored to a prior value. This can
happen due to the Eifel algorithm [RFC3522] or other
algorithms that can be used to detect and cancel spurious
invocations of the Fast Retransmit Algorithm.
Although it may be feasible to undo the effects of spurious
invocation of the Fast Retransmit congestion events cannot
easily be backed out of tcpEStatsPerfCongSignals and
tcpEStatsPathPreCongSumCwnd, etc."
REFERENCE
"RFC 3522, The Eifel Detection Algorithm for TCP"
::= { tcpEStatsStackEntry 26 }
tcpEStatsStackFastRetran OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of invocations of the Fast Retransmit algorithm."
REFERENCE
"RFC 2581, TCP Congestion Control"
::= { tcpEStatsStackEntry 27 }
tcpEStatsStackSubsequentTimeouts OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of times the retransmit timeout has expired after
the RTO has been doubled. See Section 5.5 of RFC 2988."
REFERENCE
"RFC 2988, Computing TCP's Retransmission Timer"
::= { tcpEStatsStackEntry 28 }
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tcpEStatsStackCurTimeoutCount OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Gauge32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The current number of times the retransmit timeout has
expired without receiving an acknowledgment for new data.
tcpEStatsStackCurTimeoutCount is reset to zero when new
data is acknowledged and incremented for each invocation of
Section 5.5 of RFC 2988."
REFERENCE
"RFC 2988, Computing TCP's Retransmission Timer"
::= { tcpEStatsStackEntry 29 }
tcpEStatsStackAbruptTimeouts OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of timeouts that occurred without any
immediately preceding duplicate acknowledgments or other
indications of congestion. Abrupt Timeouts indicate that
the path lost an entire window of data or acknowledgments.
Timeouts that are preceded by duplicate acknowledgments or
other congestion signals (e.g., ECN) are not counted as
abrupt, and might have been avoided by a more sophisticated
Fast Retransmit algorithm."
REFERENCE
"RFC 2581, TCP Congestion Control"
::= { tcpEStatsStackEntry 30 }
tcpEStatsStackSACKsRcvd OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of SACK options received."
REFERENCE
"RFC 2018, TCP Selective Acknowledgement Options"
::= { tcpEStatsStackEntry 31 }
tcpEStatsStackSACKBlocksRcvd OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of SACK blocks received (within SACK options)."
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REFERENCE
"RFC 2018, TCP Selective Acknowledgement Options"
::= { tcpEStatsStackEntry 32 }
tcpEStatsStackSendStall OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of interface stalls or other sender local
resource limitations that are treated as congestion
signals."
::= { tcpEStatsStackEntry 33 }
tcpEStatsStackDSACKDups OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of duplicate segments reported to the local host
by D-SACK blocks."
REFERENCE
"RFC 2883, An Extension to the Selective Acknowledgement
(SACK) Option for TCP"
::= { tcpEStatsStackEntry 34 }
--
-- The following optional objects instrument path MTU
-- discovery.
--
tcpEStatsStackMaxMSS OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Gauge32
UNITS "octets"
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The maximum MSS, in octets."
REFERENCE
"RFC 1191, Path MTU discovery"
::= { tcpEStatsStackEntry 35 }
tcpEStatsStackMinMSS OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Gauge32
UNITS "octets"
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
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"The minimum MSS, in octets."
REFERENCE
"RFC 1191, Path MTU discovery"
::= { tcpEStatsStackEntry 36 }
--
-- The following optional initial value objects are useful for
-- conformance testing instruments on application progress and
-- consumed network resources.
--
tcpEStatsStackSndInitial OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Unsigned32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"Initial send sequence number. Note that by definition
tcpEStatsStackSndInitial never changes for a given
connection."
REFERENCE
"RFC 793, Transmission Control Protocol"
::= { tcpEStatsStackEntry 37 }
tcpEStatsStackRecInitial OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Unsigned32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"Initial receive sequence number. Note that by definition
tcpEStatsStackRecInitial never changes for a given
connection."
REFERENCE
"RFC 793, Transmission Control Protocol"
::= { tcpEStatsStackEntry 38 }
--
-- The following optional objects instrument the senders
-- buffer usage, including any buffering in the application
-- interface to TCP and the retransmit queue. All 'buffer
-- memory' instruments are assumed to include OS data
-- structure overhead.
--
tcpEStatsStackCurRetxQueue OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Gauge32
UNITS "octets"
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
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DESCRIPTION
"The current number of octets of data occupying the
retransmit queue."
::= { tcpEStatsStackEntry 39 }
tcpEStatsStackMaxRetxQueue OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Gauge32
UNITS "octets"
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The maximum number of octets of data occupying the
retransmit queue."
::= { tcpEStatsStackEntry 40 }
tcpEStatsStackCurReasmQueue OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Gauge32
UNITS "octets"
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The current number of octets of sequence space spanned by
the reassembly queue. This is generally the difference
between rcv.nxt and the sequence number of the right most
edge of the reassembly queue."
::= { tcpEStatsStackEntry 41 }
tcpEStatsStackMaxReasmQueue OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Gauge32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The maximum value of tcpEStatsStackCurReasmQueue"
::= { tcpEStatsStackEntry 42 }
-- ================================================================
--
-- Statistics for diagnosing interactions between
-- applications and TCP.
--
tcpEStatsAppTable OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF TcpEStatsAppEntry
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"This table contains objects that are useful for
determining if the application using TCP is
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limiting TCP performance.
Entries are retained in this table for the number of
seconds indicated by the tcpEStatsConnTableLatency
object, after the TCP connection first enters the closed
state."
::= { tcpEStats 6 }
tcpEStatsAppEntry OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX TcpEStatsAppEntry
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"Each entry in this table has information about the
characteristics of each active and recently closed TCP
connection."
INDEX { tcpEStatsConnectIndex }
::= { tcpEStatsAppTable 1 }
TcpEStatsAppEntry ::= SEQUENCE {
tcpEStatsAppSndUna Counter32,
tcpEStatsAppSndNxt Unsigned32,
tcpEStatsAppSndMax Counter32,
tcpEStatsAppThruOctetsAcked ZeroBasedCounter32,
tcpEStatsAppHCThruOctetsAcked ZeroBasedCounter64,
tcpEStatsAppRcvNxt Counter32,
tcpEStatsAppThruOctetsReceived ZeroBasedCounter32,
tcpEStatsAppHCThruOctetsReceived ZeroBasedCounter64,
tcpEStatsAppCurAppWQueue Gauge32,
tcpEStatsAppMaxAppWQueue Gauge32,
tcpEStatsAppCurAppRQueue Gauge32,
tcpEStatsAppMaxAppRQueue Gauge32
}
--
-- The following objects provide throughput statistics for the
-- connection including sequence numbers and elapsed
-- application data. These permit direct observation of the
-- applications progress, in terms of elapsed data delivery
-- and elapsed time.
--
tcpEStatsAppSndUna OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Counter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
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"The value of SND.UNA, the oldest unacknowledged sequence
number.
Note that SND.UNA is a TCP state variable that is congruent
to Counter32 semantics."
REFERENCE
"RFC 793, Transmission Control Protocol"
::= { tcpEStatsAppEntry 1 }
tcpEStatsAppSndNxt OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Unsigned32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The value of SND.NXT, the next sequence number to be sent.
Note that tcpEStatsAppSndNxt is not monotonic (and thus not
a counter) because TCP sometimes retransmits lost data by
pulling tcpEStatsAppSndNxt back to the missing data."
REFERENCE
"RFC 793, Transmission Control Protocol"
::= { tcpEStatsAppEntry 2 }
tcpEStatsAppSndMax OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Counter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The farthest forward (right most or largest) SND.NXT value.
Note that this will be equal to tcpEStatsAppSndNxt except
when tcpEStatsAppSndNxt is pulled back during recovery."
REFERENCE
"RFC 793, Transmission Control Protocol"
::= { tcpEStatsAppEntry 3 }
tcpEStatsAppThruOctetsAcked OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32
UNITS "octets"
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of octets for which cumulative acknowledgments
have been received. Note that this will be the sum of
changes to tcpEStatsAppSndUna."
::= { tcpEStatsAppEntry 4 }
tcpEStatsAppHCThruOctetsAcked OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter64
UNITS "octets"
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MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of octets for which cumulative acknowledgments
have been received, on systems that can receive more than
10 million bits per second. Note that this will be the sum
of changes in tcpEStatsAppSndUna."
::= { tcpEStatsAppEntry 5 }
tcpEStatsAppRcvNxt OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Counter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The value of RCV.NXT. The next sequence number expected on
an incoming segment, and the left or lower edge of the
receive window.
Note that RCV.NXT is a TCP state variable that is congruent
to Counter32 semantics."
REFERENCE
"RFC 793, Transmission Control Protocol"
::= { tcpEStatsAppEntry 6 }
tcpEStatsAppThruOctetsReceived OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32
UNITS "octets"
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of octets for which cumulative acknowledgments
have been sent. Note that this will be the sum of changes
to tcpEStatsAppRcvNxt."
::= { tcpEStatsAppEntry 7 }
tcpEStatsAppHCThruOctetsReceived OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter64
UNITS "octets"
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of octets for which cumulative acknowledgments
have been sent, on systems that can transmit more than 10
million bits per second. Note that this will be the sum of
changes in tcpEStatsAppRcvNxt."
::= { tcpEStatsAppEntry 8 }
tcpEStatsAppCurAppWQueue OBJECT-TYPE
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SYNTAX Gauge32
UNITS "octets"
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The current number of octets of application data buffered
by TCP, pending first transmission, i.e., to the left of
SND.NXT or SndMax. This data will generally be transmitted
(and SND.NXT advanced to the left) as soon as there is an
available congestion window (cwnd) or receiver window
(rwin). This is the amount of data readily available for
transmission, without scheduling the application. TCP
performance may suffer if there is insufficient queued
write data."
::= { tcpEStatsAppEntry 11 }
tcpEStatsAppMaxAppWQueue OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Gauge32
UNITS "octets"
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The maximum number of octets of application data buffered
by TCP, pending first transmission. This is the maximum
value of tcpEStatsAppCurAppWQueue. This pair of objects can
be used to determine if insufficient queued data is steady
state (suggesting insufficient queue space) or transient
(suggesting insufficient application performance or
excessive CPU load or scheduler latency)."
::= { tcpEStatsAppEntry 12 }
tcpEStatsAppCurAppRQueue OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Gauge32
UNITS "octets"
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The current number of octets of application data that has
been acknowledged by TCP but not yet delivered to the
application."
::= { tcpEStatsAppEntry 13 }
tcpEStatsAppMaxAppRQueue OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Gauge32
UNITS "octets"
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
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"The maximum number of octets of application data that has
been acknowledged by TCP but not yet delivered to the
application."
::= { tcpEStatsAppEntry 14 }
-- ================================================================
--
-- Controls for Tuning TCP
--
tcpEStatsTuneTable OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF TcpEStatsTuneEntry
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"This table contains per-connection controls that can
be used to work around a number of common problems that
plague TCP over some paths. All can be characterized as
limiting the growth of the congestion window so as to
prevent TCP from overwhelming some component in the
path.
Entries are retained in this table for the number of
seconds indicated by the tcpEStatsConnTableLatency
object, after the TCP connection first enters the closed
state."
::= { tcpEStats 7 }
tcpEStatsTuneEntry OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX TcpEStatsTuneEntry
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"Each entry in this table is a control that can be used to
place limits on each active TCP connection."
INDEX { tcpEStatsConnectIndex }
::= { tcpEStatsTuneTable 1 }
TcpEStatsTuneEntry ::= SEQUENCE {
tcpEStatsTuneLimCwnd Unsigned32,
tcpEStatsTuneLimSsthresh Unsigned32,
tcpEStatsTuneLimRwin Unsigned32,
tcpEStatsTuneLimMSS Unsigned32
}
tcpEStatsTuneLimCwnd OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Unsigned32
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UNITS "octets"
MAX-ACCESS read-write
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"A control to set the maximum congestion window that may be
used, in octets."
REFERENCE
"RFC 2581, TCP Congestion Control"
::= { tcpEStatsTuneEntry 1 }
tcpEStatsTuneLimSsthresh OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Unsigned32
UNITS "octets"
MAX-ACCESS read-write
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"A control to limit the maximum queue space (in octets) that
this TCP connection is likely to occupy during slowstart.
It can be implemented with the algorithm described in
RFC 3742 by setting the max_ssthresh parameter to twice
tcpEStatsTuneLimSsthresh.
This algorithm can be used to overcome some TCP performance
problems over network paths that do not have sufficient
buffering to withstand the bursts normally present during
slowstart."
REFERENCE
"RFC 3742, Limited Slow-Start for TCP with Large Congestion
Windows"
::= { tcpEStatsTuneEntry 2 }
tcpEStatsTuneLimRwin OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Unsigned32
UNITS "octets"
MAX-ACCESS read-write
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"A control to set the maximum window advertisement that may
be sent, in octets."
REFERENCE
"RFC 793, Transmission Control Protocol"
::= { tcpEStatsTuneEntry 3 }
tcpEStatsTuneLimMSS OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Unsigned32
UNITS "octets"
MAX-ACCESS read-write
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STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"A control to limit the maximum segment size in octets, that
this TCP connection can use."
REFERENCE
"RFC 1191, Path MTU discovery"
::= { tcpEStatsTuneEntry 4 }
-- ================================================================
--
-- TCP Extended Statistics Notifications Group
--
tcpEStatsEstablishNotification NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECTS {
tcpEStatsConnectIndex
}
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The indicated connection has been accepted
(or alternatively entered the established state)."
::= { tcpEStatsNotifications 1 }
tcpEStatsCloseNotification NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECTS {
tcpEStatsConnectIndex
}
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The indicated connection has left the
established state"
::= { tcpEStatsNotifications 2 }
-- ================================================================
--
-- Conformance Definitions
--
tcpEStatsCompliances OBJECT IDENTIFIER
::= { tcpEStatsConformance 1 }
tcpEStatsGroups OBJECT IDENTIFIER
::= { tcpEStatsConformance 2 }
--
-- Compliance Statements
--
tcpEStatsCompliance MODULE-COMPLIANCE
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STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"Compliance statement for all systems that implement TCP
extended statistics."
MODULE -- this module
MANDATORY-GROUPS {
tcpEStatsListenerGroup,
tcpEStatsConnectIdGroup,
tcpEStatsPerfGroup,
tcpEStatsPathGroup,
tcpEStatsStackGroup,
tcpEStatsAppGroup
}
GROUP tcpEStatsListenerHCGroup
DESCRIPTION
"This group is mandatory for all systems that can
wrap the values of the 32-bit counters in
tcpEStatsListenerGroup in less than one hour."
GROUP tcpEStatsPerfOptionalGroup
DESCRIPTION
"This group is optional for all systems."
GROUP tcpEStatsPerfHCGroup
DESCRIPTION
"This group is mandatory for systems that can
wrap the values of the 32-bit counters in
tcpEStatsPerfGroup in less than one hour.
Note that any system that can attain 10 Mb/s
can potentially wrap 32-Bit Octet counters in
under one hour."
GROUP tcpEStatsPathOptionalGroup
DESCRIPTION
"This group is optional for all systems."
GROUP tcpEStatsPathHCGroup
DESCRIPTION
"This group is mandatory for systems that can
wrap the values of the 32-bit counters in
tcpEStatsPathGroup in less than one hour.
Note that any system that can attain 10 Mb/s
can potentially wrap 32-Bit Octet counters in
under one hour."
GROUP tcpEStatsStackOptionalGroup
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DESCRIPTION
"This group is optional for all systems."
GROUP tcpEStatsAppHCGroup
DESCRIPTION
"This group is mandatory for systems that can
wrap the values of the 32-bit counters in
tcpEStatsStackGroup in less than one hour.
Note that any system that can attain 10 Mb/s
can potentially wrap 32-Bit Octet counters in
under one hour."
GROUP tcpEStatsAppOptionalGroup
DESCRIPTION
"This group is optional for all systems."
GROUP tcpEStatsTuneOptionalGroup
DESCRIPTION
"This group is optional for all systems."
GROUP tcpEStatsNotificationsGroup
DESCRIPTION
"This group is optional for all systems."
GROUP tcpEStatsNotificationsCtlGroup
DESCRIPTION
"This group is mandatory for systems that include the
tcpEStatsNotificationGroup."
::= { tcpEStatsCompliances 1 }
-- ================================================================
--
-- Units of Conformance
--
tcpEStatsListenerGroup OBJECT-GROUP
OBJECTS {
tcpEStatsListenerTableLastChange,
tcpEStatsListenerStartTime,
tcpEStatsListenerSynRcvd,
tcpEStatsListenerInitial,
tcpEStatsListenerEstablished,
tcpEStatsListenerAccepted,
tcpEStatsListenerExceedBacklog,
tcpEStatsListenerCurConns,
tcpEStatsListenerMaxBacklog,
tcpEStatsListenerCurBacklog,
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tcpEStatsListenerCurEstabBacklog
}
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The tcpEStatsListener group includes objects that
provide valuable statistics and debugging
information for TCP Listeners."
::= { tcpEStatsGroups 1 }
tcpEStatsListenerHCGroup OBJECT-GROUP
OBJECTS {
tcpEStatsListenerHCSynRcvd,
tcpEStatsListenerHCInitial,
tcpEStatsListenerHCEstablished,
tcpEStatsListenerHCAccepted,
tcpEStatsListenerHCExceedBacklog
}
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The tcpEStatsListenerHC group includes 64-bit
counters in tcpEStatsListenerTable."
::= { tcpEStatsGroups 2 }
tcpEStatsConnectIdGroup OBJECT-GROUP
OBJECTS {
tcpEStatsConnTableLatency,
tcpEStatsConnectIndex
}
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The tcpEStatsConnectId group includes objects that
identify TCP connections and control how long TCP
connection entries are retained in the tables."
::= { tcpEStatsGroups 3 }
tcpEStatsPerfGroup OBJECT-GROUP
OBJECTS {
tcpEStatsPerfSegsOut, tcpEStatsPerfDataSegsOut,
tcpEStatsPerfDataOctetsOut,
tcpEStatsPerfSegsRetrans,
tcpEStatsPerfOctetsRetrans, tcpEStatsPerfSegsIn,
tcpEStatsPerfDataSegsIn,
tcpEStatsPerfDataOctetsIn,
tcpEStatsPerfElapsedSecs,
tcpEStatsPerfElapsedMicroSecs,
tcpEStatsPerfStartTimeStamp, tcpEStatsPerfCurMSS,
tcpEStatsPerfPipeSize, tcpEStatsPerfMaxPipeSize,
tcpEStatsPerfSmoothedRTT, tcpEStatsPerfCurRTO,
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tcpEStatsPerfCongSignals, tcpEStatsPerfCurCwnd,
tcpEStatsPerfCurSsthresh, tcpEStatsPerfTimeouts,
tcpEStatsPerfCurRwinSent,
tcpEStatsPerfMaxRwinSent,
tcpEStatsPerfZeroRwinSent,
tcpEStatsPerfCurRwinRcvd,
tcpEStatsPerfMaxRwinRcvd,
tcpEStatsPerfZeroRwinRcvd
}
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The tcpEStatsPerf group includes those objects that
provide basic performance data for a TCP connection."
::= { tcpEStatsGroups 4 }
tcpEStatsPerfOptionalGroup OBJECT-GROUP
OBJECTS {
tcpEStatsPerfSndLimTransRwin,
tcpEStatsPerfSndLimTransCwnd,
tcpEStatsPerfSndLimTransSnd,
tcpEStatsPerfSndLimTimeRwin,
tcpEStatsPerfSndLimTimeCwnd,
tcpEStatsPerfSndLimTimeSnd
}
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The tcpEStatsPerf group includes those objects that
provide basic performance data for a TCP connection."
::= { tcpEStatsGroups 5 }
tcpEStatsPerfHCGroup OBJECT-GROUP
OBJECTS {
tcpEStatsPerfHCDataOctetsOut,
tcpEStatsPerfHCDataOctetsIn
}
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The tcpEStatsPerfHC group includes 64-bit
counters in the tcpEStatsPerfTable."
::= { tcpEStatsGroups 6 }
tcpEStatsPathGroup OBJECT-GROUP
OBJECTS {
tcpEStatsControlPath,
tcpEStatsPathRetranThresh,
tcpEStatsPathNonRecovDAEpisodes,
tcpEStatsPathSumOctetsReordered,
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tcpEStatsPathNonRecovDA
}
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The tcpEStatsPath group includes objects that
control the creation of the tcpEStatsPathTable,
and provide information about the path
for each TCP connection."
::= { tcpEStatsGroups 7 }
tcpEStatsPathOptionalGroup OBJECT-GROUP
OBJECTS {
tcpEStatsPathSampleRTT, tcpEStatsPathRTTVar,
tcpEStatsPathMaxRTT, tcpEStatsPathMinRTT,
tcpEStatsPathSumRTT, tcpEStatsPathCountRTT,
tcpEStatsPathMaxRTO, tcpEStatsPathMinRTO,
tcpEStatsPathIpTtl, tcpEStatsPathIpTosIn,
tcpEStatsPathIpTosOut,
tcpEStatsPathPreCongSumCwnd,
tcpEStatsPathPreCongSumRTT,
tcpEStatsPathPostCongSumRTT,
tcpEStatsPathPostCongCountRTT,
tcpEStatsPathECNsignals,
tcpEStatsPathDupAckEpisodes, tcpEStatsPathRcvRTT,
tcpEStatsPathDupAcksOut, tcpEStatsPathCERcvd,
tcpEStatsPathECESent
}
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The tcpEStatsPath group includes objects that
provide additional information about the path
for each TCP connection."
::= { tcpEStatsGroups 8 }
tcpEStatsPathHCGroup OBJECT-GROUP
OBJECTS {
tcpEStatsPathHCSumRTT
}
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The tcpEStatsPathHC group includes 64-bit
counters in the tcpEStatsPathTable."
::= { tcpEStatsGroups 9 }
tcpEStatsStackGroup OBJECT-GROUP
OBJECTS {
tcpEStatsControlStack,
tcpEStatsStackActiveOpen, tcpEStatsStackMSSSent,
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tcpEStatsStackMSSRcvd, tcpEStatsStackWinScaleSent,
tcpEStatsStackWinScaleRcvd,
tcpEStatsStackTimeStamps, tcpEStatsStackECN,
tcpEStatsStackWillSendSACK,
tcpEStatsStackWillUseSACK, tcpEStatsStackState,
tcpEStatsStackNagle, tcpEStatsStackMaxSsCwnd,
tcpEStatsStackMaxCaCwnd,
tcpEStatsStackMaxSsthresh,
tcpEStatsStackMinSsthresh,
tcpEStatsStackInRecovery, tcpEStatsStackDupAcksIn,
tcpEStatsStackSpuriousFrDetected,
tcpEStatsStackSpuriousRtoDetected
}
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The tcpEStatsConnState group includes objects that
control the creation of the tcpEStatsStackTable,
and provide information about the operation of
algorithms used within TCP."
::= { tcpEStatsGroups 10 }
tcpEStatsStackOptionalGroup OBJECT-GROUP
OBJECTS {
tcpEStatsStackSoftErrors,
tcpEStatsStackSoftErrorReason,
tcpEStatsStackSlowStart, tcpEStatsStackCongAvoid,
tcpEStatsStackOtherReductions,
tcpEStatsStackCongOverCount,
tcpEStatsStackFastRetran,
tcpEStatsStackSubsequentTimeouts,
tcpEStatsStackCurTimeoutCount,
tcpEStatsStackAbruptTimeouts,
tcpEStatsStackSACKsRcvd,
tcpEStatsStackSACKBlocksRcvd,
tcpEStatsStackSendStall, tcpEStatsStackDSACKDups,
tcpEStatsStackMaxMSS, tcpEStatsStackMinMSS,
tcpEStatsStackSndInitial,
tcpEStatsStackRecInitial,
tcpEStatsStackCurRetxQueue,
tcpEStatsStackMaxRetxQueue,
tcpEStatsStackCurReasmQueue,
tcpEStatsStackMaxReasmQueue
}
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The tcpEStatsConnState group includes objects that
provide additional information about the operation of
algorithms used within TCP."
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::= { tcpEStatsGroups 11 }
tcpEStatsAppGroup OBJECT-GROUP
OBJECTS {
tcpEStatsControlApp,
tcpEStatsAppSndUna, tcpEStatsAppSndNxt,
tcpEStatsAppSndMax, tcpEStatsAppThruOctetsAcked,
tcpEStatsAppRcvNxt,
tcpEStatsAppThruOctetsReceived
}
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The tcpEStatsConnState group includes objects that
control the creation of the tcpEStatsAppTable,
and provide information about the operation of
algorithms used within TCP."
::= { tcpEStatsGroups 12 }
tcpEStatsAppHCGroup OBJECT-GROUP
OBJECTS {
tcpEStatsAppHCThruOctetsAcked,
tcpEStatsAppHCThruOctetsReceived
}
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The tcpEStatsStackHC group includes 64-bit
counters in the tcpEStatsStackTable."
::= { tcpEStatsGroups 13 }
tcpEStatsAppOptionalGroup OBJECT-GROUP
OBJECTS {
tcpEStatsAppCurAppWQueue,
tcpEStatsAppMaxAppWQueue,
tcpEStatsAppCurAppRQueue,
tcpEStatsAppMaxAppRQueue
}
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The tcpEStatsConnState group includes objects that
provide additional information about how applications
are interacting with each TCP connection."
::= { tcpEStatsGroups 14 }
tcpEStatsTuneOptionalGroup OBJECT-GROUP
OBJECTS {
tcpEStatsControlTune,
tcpEStatsTuneLimCwnd, tcpEStatsTuneLimSsthresh,
tcpEStatsTuneLimRwin, tcpEStatsTuneLimMSS
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}
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The tcpEStatsConnState group includes objects that
control the creation of the tcpEStatsConnectionTable,
which can be used to set tuning parameters
for each TCP connection."
::= { tcpEStatsGroups 15 }
tcpEStatsNotificationsGroup NOTIFICATION-GROUP
NOTIFICATIONS {
tcpEStatsEstablishNotification,
tcpEStatsCloseNotification
}
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"Notifications sent by a TCP extended statistics agent."
::= { tcpEStatsGroups 16 }
tcpEStatsNotificationsCtlGroup OBJECT-GROUP
OBJECTS {
tcpEStatsControlNotify
}
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The tcpEStatsNotificationsCtl group includes the
object that controls the creation of the events
in the tcpEStatsNotificationsGroup."
::= { tcpEStatsGroups 17 }
END
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5. Security Considerations
There are a number of management objects defined in this MIB module
with a MAX-ACCESS clause of read-write and/or read-create. Such
objects may be considered sensitive or vulnerable in some network
environments. The support for SET operations in a non-secure
environment without proper protection can have a negative effect on
network operations. These are the tables and objects and their
sensitivity/vulnerability:
* Changing tcpEStatsConnTableLatency or any of the control objects
in the tcpEStatsControl group (tcpEStatsControlPath,
tcpEStatsControlStack, tcpEStatsControlApp, tcpEStatsControlTune)
may affect the correctness of other management applications
accessing this MIB. Generally, local policy should only permit
limited write access to these controls (e.g., only by one
management station or only during system configuration).
* The objects in the tcpEStatsControlTune group
(tcpEStatsTuneLimCwnd, tcpEStatsTuneLimSsthresh,
tcpEStatsTuneLimRwin) can be used to limit resources consumed by
TCP connections or to limit TCP throughput. An attacker might
manipulate these objects to reduce performance to levels below the
minimum acceptable for a particular application.
Some of the readable objects in this MIB module (i.e., objects with a
MAX-ACCESS other than not-accessible) may be considered sensitive or
vulnerable in some network environments. It is thus important to
control even GET and/or NOTIFY access to these objects and possibly
to even encrypt the values of these objects when sending them over
the network via SNMP. These are the tables and objects and their
sensitivity/vulnerability:
* All objects which expose TCP sequence numbers (tcpEStatsAppSndUna,
tcpEStatsAppSndNxt, tcpEStatsAppSndMax, tcpEStatsStackSndInitial,
tcpEStatsAppRcvNxt, and tcpEStatsStackRecInitial) might make it
easier for an attacker to forge in sequence TCP segments to
disrupt TCP connections.
* Nearly all objects in this (or any other) MIB may be used to
estimate traffic volumes, which may reveal unanticipated
information about an organization to the outside world.
SNMP versions prior to SNMPv3 did not include adequate security.
Even if the network itself is secure (for example by using IPsec),
even then, there is no control as to who on the secure network is
allowed to access and GET/SET (read/change/create/delete) the objects
in this MIB module.
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It is RECOMMENDED that implementers consider the security features as
provided by the SNMPv3 framework (see [RFC3410], section 8),
including full support for the SNMPv3 cryptographic mechanisms (for
authentication and privacy).
Further, deployment of SNMP versions prior to SNMPv3 is NOT
RECOMMENDED. Instead, it is RECOMMENDED to deploy SNMPv3 and to
enable cryptographic security. It is then a customer/operator
responsibility to ensure that the SNMP entity giving access to an
instance of this MIB module is properly configured to give access to
the objects only to those principals (users) that have legitimate
rights to indeed GET or SET (change/create/delete) them.
6. IANA Considerations
The MIB module in this document uses the following IANA-assigned
OBJECT IDENTIFIER values recorded in the SMI Numbers registry:
Descriptor OBJECT IDENTIFIER value
------------ -----------------------
tcpEStatsMIB { mib-2 156 }
7. Normative References
[RFC791] Postel, J., "Internet Protocol", STD 5, RFC 791, September
1981.
[RFC793] Postel, J., "Transmission Control Protocol", STD 7, RFC
793, September 1981.
[RFC1122] Braden, R., Ed., "Requirements for Internet Hosts -
Communication Layers", STD 3, RFC 1122, October 1989.
[RFC1191] Mogul, J. and S. Deering, "Path MTU discovery", RFC 1191,
November 1990.
[RFC1323] Jacobson, V., Braden, R., and D. Borman, "TCP Extensions
for High Performance", RFC 1323, May 1992.
[RFC2018] Mathis, M., Mahdavi, J., Floyd, S., and A. Romanow, "TCP
Selective Acknowledgment Options", RFC 2018, October 1996.
[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
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[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", RFC 2579, STD 58, April 1999.
[RFC2580] McCloghrie, K., Perkins, D., Schoenwaelder, J., Case, J.,
Rose, M., and S. Waldbusser, "Conformance Statements for
SMIv2", RFC 2580, STD 58, April 1999.
[RFC2581] Allman, M., Paxson, V., and W. Stevens, "TCP Congestion
Control", RFC 2581, April 1999.
[RFC2856] Bierman, A., McCloghrie, K., and R. Presuhn, "Textual
Conventions for Additional High Capacity Data Types", RFC
2856, June 2000.
[RFC2883] Floyd, S., Mahdavi, J., Mathis, M., and M. Podolsky, "An
Extension to the Selective Acknowledgement (SACK) Option
for TCP", RFC 2883, July 2000.
[RFC2988] Paxson, V. and M. Allman, "Computing TCP's Retransmission
Timer", RFC 2988, November 2000.
[RFC3168] Ramakrishnan, K., Floyd, S., and D. Black, "The Addition
of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IP", RFC
3168, September 2001.
[RFC3517] Blanton, E., Allman, M., Fall, K., and L. Wang, "A
Conservative Selective Acknowledgment (SACK)-based Loss
Recovery Algorithm for TCP", RFC 3517, April 2003.
[RFC4022] Raghunarayan, R., Ed., "Management Information Base for
the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)", RFC 4022, March
2005.
[RFC4502] Waldbusser, S., "Remote Network Monitoring Management
Information Base Version 2", RFC 4502, May 2006.
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8. Informative References
[Mat97] M. Mathis, J. Semke, J. Mahdavi, T. Ott, "The Macroscopic
Behavior of the TCP Congestion Avoidance Algorithm",
Computer Communication Review, volume 27, number 3, July
1997.
[Bra94] Brakmo, L., O'Malley, S., "TCP Vegas, New Techniques for
Congestion Detection and Avoidance", SIGCOMM'94, London,
pp 24-35, October 1994.
[Edd06] Eddy, W., "TCP SYN Flooding Attacks and Common
Mitigations", Work in Progress, May 2007.
[POSIX] Portable Operating System Interface, IEEE Std 1003.1
[Pad98] Padhye, J., Firoiu, V., Towsley, D., Kurose, J., "Modeling
TCP Throughput: A Simple Model and its Empirical
Validation", SIGCOMM'98.
[Web100] Mathis, M., J. Heffner, R. Reddy, "Web100: Extended TCP
Instrumentation for Research, Education and Diagnosis",
ACM Computer Communications Review, Vol 33, Num 3, July
2003.
[RFC2861] Handley, M., Padhye, J., and S. Floyd, "TCP Congestion
Window Validation", RFC 2861, June 2000.
[RFC3260] Grossman, D., "New Terminology and Clarifications for
Diffserv", RFC 3260, April 2002.
[RFC3410] Case, J., Mundy, R., Partain, D. and B. Stewart,
"Introduction and Applicability Statements for Internet-
Standard Management Framework", RFC 3410, December 2002.
[RFC3522] Ludwig, R. and M. Meyer, "The Eifel Detection Algorithm
for TCP", RFC 3522, April 2003.
[RFC3742] Floyd, S., "Limited Slow-Start for TCP with Large
Congestion Windows", RFC 3742, March 2004.
[RFC4614] Duke M., Braden, R., Eddy, W., Blanton, E. "A Roadmap for
Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Specification
Documents", RFC 4614, September 2006.
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9. Contributors
The following people contributed text that was incorporated into this
document:
Jon Saperia <saperia@jdscons.com> converted Web100 internal
documentation into a true MIB.
Some of the objects in this document were moved from an early version
of the TCP-MIB by Bill Fenner, et al.
Some of the object descriptions are based on an earlier unpublished
document by Jeff Semke.
10. Acknowledgments
This document is a product of the Web100 project (www.web100.org), a
joint effort of Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (www.psc.edu),
National Center for Atmospheric Research (www.ncar.ucar.edu), and
National Center for Supercomputer Applications (www.ncsa.edu).
It would not have been possible without all of the hard work by the
entire Web100 team, especially Peter O'Neal, who read and reread the
entire document several times; Janet Brown and Marla Meehl, who
patiently managed the unmanageable. The Web100 project would not
have been successful without all of the early adopters who suffered
our bugs to provide many good suggestions and insights into their
needs for TCP instrumentation.
Web100 was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant
No. 0083285 and a research grant from Cisco Systems.
We would also like to thank all of the people who built experimental
implementations of this MIB from early versions and provided us with
constructive feedback: Glenn Turner at AARnet, Kristine Adamson at
IBM, and Xinyan Zan at Microsoft.
And last, but not least, we would like to thank Dan Romascanu, our
"MIB Doctor" and Bert Wijnen, the Operations Area Director, for
patiently steering us through the MIB review process.
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Authors' Addresses
Matt Mathis
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
300 S. Craig St.
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Phone: 412-268-4960
EMail: mathis@psc.edu
John Heffner
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
300 S. Craig St.
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Phone: 412-268-4960
EMail: jheffner@psc.edu
Rajiv Raghunarayan
Cisco Systems Inc.
San Jose, CA 95134
Phone: 408 853 9612
EMail: raraghun@cisco.com
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