Appendix A. Terminal Server Serial Ports

The following is an excerpt from RFC 1317 and illustrates the way in which serial interfaces are modeled in this MIB. The object instances supported by a real device that implements this MIB can be viewed using a MIB browser and pointing it at an appropriately configured terminal server.

RFC1317-MIB DEFINITIONS ::= BEGIN

    IMPORTS
       Counter
          FROM RFC1155-SMI
       transmission
          FROM RFC1213-MIB
       OBJECT-TYPE
          FROM RFC-1212;

  -- this is the MIB module for RS-232-like hardware devices rs232 OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { transmission 33 } -- the generic RS-232-like group -- Implementation of this group is mandatory for all -- systems that have RS-232-like hardware ports -- supporting higher level services such as character -- streams ...

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