The current status of the IP address entry. The following values may be returned when reading this object: active (1) - The IP address is currently mapped to an interface and is valid. notReady (3) - The IP address is currently partially configured and is not mapped to an interface. The following values may be written to this object: active (1) - An attempt will be made to map the IP address to the configured interface. createAndWait (5) - An attempt will be made to create a new IP address entry. destroy (6) - The IP address setting will be removed from the device. An entry cannot be made active until its atIpAddressPrefixLen, atIpAddressIfIndex and atIpAddressAssignmentType objects have been set to valid values.