References
For more information about the MPLS protocol, consult the following resources:
- JUNOSe Release Notes, Appendix A, System Maximums—Refer to the Release Notes corresponding to your software release for information about maximum values.
- BGP/MPLS IP VPNs—draft-ietf-l3vpn-rfc2547bis-03.txt (April 2005 expiration)
- Encapsulating MPLS in IP or Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)—draft-ietf-mpls-in-ip-or-gre-03.txt (September 2003 expiration)
- LDP IGP Synchronization—draft-jork-ldp-igp-sync-01.txt (August 2005 expiration)
- RFC 2104—HMAC: Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication (February 1997)
- RFC 2205—Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) -- Version 1, Functional Specification (September 1997)
- RFC 2209—Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) -- Version 1, Message Processing Rules (September 1997)
- RFC 2210—The Use of RSVP with IETF Integrated Services (September 1997)
- RFC 2211—Specification of the Controlled-Load Network Element Service (September 1997)
- RFC 2474—Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS Field) in the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers (December 1998)
- RFC 2475—An Architecture for Differentiated Services (December 1998)
- RFC 2547—BGP/MPLS VPNs (March 1999)
- RFC 2597—Assured Forwarding PHB Group (June 1999)
- RFC 2685—Virtual Private Networks Identifier (September 1999)
- RFC 2702—Requirements for Traffic Engineering over MPLS (September 1999)
- RFC 2747—RSVP Cryptographic Authentication (January 2000)
- RFC 2836—Per Hop Behavior Identification Codes (May 2000)
- RFC 2858—Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4 (June 2000)
- RFC 2961—RSVP Refresh Overhead Reduction Extensions (April 2001)
- RFC 3031—Multiprotocol Label Switching Architecture (January 2001)
- RFC 3032—MPLS Label Stack Encoding (January 2001)
- RFC 3035—MPLS using LDP and ATM VC Switching (January 2001)
- RFC 3036—LDP Specification (January 2001)
- RFC 3037—LDP Applicability (January 2001)
- RFC 3097—RSVP Cryptographic Authentication -- Updated Message Type Value (April 2001)
- RFC 3107—Carrying Label Information in BGP-4 (May 2001)
- RFC 3140—Per Hop Behavior Identification Codes (June 2001)
- RFC 3209—RSVP-TE: Extensions to RSVP for LSP Tunnels (December 2001)
- RFC 3210—Applicability Statement for Extensions to RSVP for LSP-Tunnels (December 2001)
- RFC 3246—An Expedited Forwarding PHB (Per-Hop Behavior) (March 2002)
- RFC 3270—Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Support of Differentiated Services (May 2002)
- RFC 3443—Time To Live (TTL) Processing in Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Networks (January 2003)
- RFC 3471—Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) Signaling Functional Description (January 2003)
- RFC 3473—Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) Signaling Resource ReserVation Protocol-Traffic Engineering (RSVP-TE) Extensions (January 2003)
- RFC 3478—Graceful Restart Mechanism for Label Distribution Protocol (February 2003)
- RFC 3479—Fault Tolerance for the Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) (February 2003)
- RFC 3564—Requirements for support of Differentiated Services-aware MPLS Traffic Engineering (July 2003)
- RFC 4090—Fast Reroute Extensions to RSVP-TE for LSP Tunnels (May 2005)
- RFC 4379—Detecting Multi-Protocol Label Switched (MPLS) Data Plane Failures (February 2006)
NOTE: IETF drafts are valid for only 6 months from the date of issuance. They must be considered as works in progress. Please refer to the IETF Web site at http://www.ietf.org for the latest drafts.