MPLS 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.
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)
Detecting Data Plane Failures in Point-to-Multipoint Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) - Extensions to LSP Ping—draft-ietf-mpls-p2mp-lsp-ping-08.txt (February 2010 expiration)
RFC 2104—HMAC: Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication (February 1997)5.2
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 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 4760—Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4 (January 2007)
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 4364—BGP/MPLS IP Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) (February 2006)
RFC 4379—Detecting Multi-Protocol Label Switched (MPLS) Data Plane Failures (February 2006)
RFC 4661—Signaling Requirements for Point-to-Multipoint Traffic-Engineered MPLS Label Switched Paths (LSPs) (April 2006)

RFC 4875—Extensions to Resource Reservation Protocol - Traffic Engineering (RSVP-TE) for Point-to-Multipoint TE Label Switched Paths (LSPs) (May 2007)

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.

MPLS References

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