BGP Standards

The Junos OS supports BGP version 4 and several extensions to the protocol, which are defined in the following documents:

• RFC 1772, Application of the Border Gateway Protocol in the Internet
• RFC 1965, Autonomous System Confederations for BGP
• RFC 1966, BGP Route Reflection: An Alternative to Full-Mesh IBGP
• RFC 1997, BGP Communities Attribute
• RFC 2270, Using a Dedicated AS for Sites Homed to a Single Provider
• RFC 2283, Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4
• RFC 2385, Protection of BGP Sessions via the TCP MD5 Signature Option
• RFC 2439, BGP Route Flap Damping
• RFC 2545, Use of BGP-4 Multiprotocol Extensions for IPv6 Inter-Domain Routing
• RFC 2796, BGP Route Reflection
• RFC 2858, Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4
• RFC 2918, Route Refresh Capability for BGP-4
• RFC 3065, Autonomous System Confederations for BGP
• RFC 3107, Carrying Label Information in BGP-4
• RFC 3392, Capabilities Advertisement with BGP-4
• RFC 4271, A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)
• RFC 4724, Graceful Restart Mechanism for BGP
• RFC 4781, Graceful Restart Mechanism for BGP with MPLS
• RFC 4893, BGP Support for Four-octet AS Number Space
• Internet draft draft-ietf-ppvpn-rfc2547bis-00.txt, BGP/MPLS VPNs (expires January 2002)
• Internet draft draft-kato-bgp-ipv6-link-local-00.txt, BGP4+ Peering Using IPv6 Link-local Address (expires April 2002)
• Internet draft draft-ietf-ngtrans-bgp-tunnel-04.txt, Connecting IPv6 Islands across IPv4 Clouds with BGP (only MP-BGP over IPv4 Approach) (expires July 2002)
• Internet draft draft-ietf-idr-flow-spec-00.txt, Dissemination of Flow Specification Rules

To access Internet RFCs and drafts, go to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) website at http://www.ietf.org .