The status of the MAC address for a station. The meaning varies depending on the media type of the NMM reporting the status. The values are: other(1)......unknown or other active(2).....the station is actively sending and receiving, or participating in the ring poll inactive(3)...the station is idle For Ethernet, active(2) means that the station has sent a frame in the last N seconds and inactive(3) means the station has not sent a frame in the last N seconds. N is specified by the s5EnNodeInactInterval object, which is defined in the 5000 Ethernet MIB. The status of other(3) is reported when the current status of the station is unknown. For Token Ring and FDDI, the status of a station will always be reported as active(2) since it is based on being in the ring poll. When no longer in the ring poll, a station is removed from the table.