Supported IPv6 Standards

The Junos OS substantially supports the following RFCs and Internet drafts, which define standards for IP version 6 (IPv6).

• RFC 1157, A Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
• RFC 1195, Use of OSI IS-IS for Routing in TCP/IP and Dual Environments

• RFC 1213, Management Information Base for Network Management of TCP/IP-based internets: MIB-II

  Only the following features are supported:

  • Junos-specific secured access list
  • Master configuration keywords

  • MIB II and its SNMP version 2 derivatives, including the following:

    • Interface management
    • IP (except for the ipRouteTable object, which has been replaced by ipCidrRouteTable [RFC 2096, IP Forwarding Table MIB])
    • SNMP management
    • Statistics counters
  • Reconfigurations upon receipt of the SIGHUP signal
  • SNMP version 1 Get and GetNext requests and version 2 GetBulk requests
• RFC 1215, A Convention for Defining Traps for use with the SNMP

  Only MIB II SNMP version 1 traps and version 2 notifications are supported.

• RFC 1771, A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)
• RFC 1772, Application of the Border Gateway Protocol in the Internet
• RFC 1902, Structure of Management Information for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)
• RFC 1905, Protocol Operations for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)
• RFC 1981, Path MTU Discovery for IP version 6
• RFC 2080, RIPng for IPv6
• RFC 2081, RIPng Protocol Applicability Statement
• RFC 2283, Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4
• RFC 2373, IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture
• RFC 2460, Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
• RFC 2464, Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Ethernet Networks
• RFC 2465, Management Information Base for IP Version 6: Textual Conventions and General Group

  IP version 6 (IPv6) and Internet Control Message Protocol version 6 (ICMPv6) statistics are not supported.

• RFC 2472, IP Version 6 over PPP
• RFC 2474, Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS Field) in the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers
• RFC 2491, IPv6 Over Non-Broadcast Multiple Access (NBMA) networks
• RFC 2492, IPv6 over ATM Networks
• RFC 2526, Reserved IPv6 Subnet Anycast Addresses
• RFC 2545, Use of BGP-4 Multiprotocol Extensions for IPv6 Inter-Domain Routing
• RFC 2578, Structure of Management Information Version 2 (SMIv2)
• RFC 2675, IPv6 Jumbograms
• RFC 2711, IPv6 Router Alert Option
• RFC 2740, OSPF for IPv6
• RFC 2878, PPP Bridging Control Protocol (BCP)
• RFC 2893, Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts and Routers
• RFC 3315, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6)

  Address assignment is supported with IP version 4 (IPv4) but not IP version 6 (IPv6).

• RFC 3484, Default Address Selection for Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
• RFC 3513, Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Addressing Architecture
• RFC 3515, The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Refer Method
• RFC 3768, Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
• RFC 3810, Multicast Listener Discovery Version 2 (MLDv2) for IPv6
• RFC 4291, IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture
• RFC 4443, Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
• RFC 4659, BGP-MPLS IP Virtual Private Network (VPN) Extension for IPv6 VPN
• RFC 4861 Neighbor Discovery for IP Version 6 (IPv6)
• RFC 4862, IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration
• RFC 5095, Deprecation of Type 0 Routing Headers in IPv6
• RFC 5308, Routing IPv6 with IS-IS
• Internet draft draft-ietf-idr-flow-spec-00.txt, Dissemination of flow specification rules
• Internet draft-ietf-softwire-dual-stack-lite-04.txt, Dual-Stack Lite Broadband Deployments Following IPv4 Exhaustion
• Internet draft draft-kato-bgp-ipv6-link-local-00.txt, BGP4+ Peering Using IPv6 Link-local Address
• Internet draft draft-ooms-v6ops-bgp-tunnel-06.txt, Connecting IPv6 Islands over IPv4 MPLS using IPv6 Provider Edge Routers (6PE) (expires July 2006)

  Only MP-BGP over IPv4 approach is supported.

The following RFCs and Internet draft do not define standards, but provide information about IPv6 and related technologies. The IETF classifies them variously as “Experimental” or “Informational.”

• RFC 1901, Introduction to Community-based SNMPv2
• RFC 2767, Dual Stack Hosts using the "Bump-In-the-Stack" Technique (BIS)
• RFC 3587, IPv6 Global Unicast Address Format
• Internet draft-ietf-ngtrans-bgp-tunnel-04.txt, Connecting IPv6 Islands across IPv4 Clouds with BGP

  Only MP-BGP over IP version 4 (IPv4) approach is supported.

Related Topics

• Supported IPv4, TCP, and UDP Standards
• Accessing Standards Documents on the Internet