NAME

SNMP::Info::Bridge - Perl5 Interface to BRIDGE-MIB

DESCRIPTION

BRIDGE-MIB is used by most Layer 2 devices like Switches

Inherits all methods from SNMP::Info

AUTHOR

Max Baker (max@warped.org)

SYNOPSIS

 my $bridge = new SNMP::Info::Bridge(DestHost  => 'myswitch',
                               Community => 'public');
 my $mac = $bridge->mac(); 

CREATING AN OBJECT

new SNMP::Info::Bridge()

Arguments passed to new() are passed on to SNMP::Session::new()

    my $bridge = new SNMP::Info::Bridge(
        DestHost => $host,
        Community => 'public',
        Version => 3,...
        ) 
    die "Couldn't connect.\n" unless defined $bridge;

$bridge->session()

Sets or returns the SNMP::Session object

    # Get
    my $sess = $bridge->session();

    # Set
    my $newsession = new SNMP::Session(...);
    $bridge->session($newsession);

Bridge Global Configuration Values

$bridge->b_mac()

Returns the MAC Address of the root bridge port

(dot1dBaseBridgeAddress)

$bridge->b_ports()

Returns the number of ports in device

(dot1dBaseNumPorts)

$bridge->b_type()

Returns the type? of the device

(dot1dBaseType)

TABLE ENTRIES

Forwarding Table (dot1dTpFdbEntry)

$bridge->fw_mac()

Returns reference to hash of forwarding table MAC Addresses

(dot1dTpFdbAddress)

$bridge->fw_port()

Returns reference to hash of forwarding table entries port interface identifier (iid)

(dot1dTpFdbPort)

$bridge->fw_status()

Returns reference to hash of forwading table entries status

(dot2dTpFdbStatus)

Bridge Port Table (dot1dBasePortEntry)

$bridge->bp_index()

Returns reference to hash of bridge port table entries map back to interface identifier (iid)

(dot1dBasePortIfIndex)

$bridge->bp_port()

Returns reference to hash of bridge port table entries physical port name.

(dot1dBasePortCircuit)