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Supported OSPF and OSPFv3 Standards

Junos OS substantially supports the following RFCs and Internet drafts, which define standards for OSPF and OSPF version 3 (OSPFv3).

  • RFC 1583, OSPF Version 2

  • RFC 1765, OSPF Database Overflow

  • RFC 1793, Extending OSPF to Support Demand Circuits

  • RFC 1850, OSPF Version 2 Management Information Base

  • RFC 2154, OSPF with Digital Signatures

  • RFC 2328, OSPF Version 2

  • RFC 2370, The OSPF Opaque LSA Option

    Support is provided by the update-threshold configuration statement at the [edit protocols rsvp interface interface-name ] hierarchy level.

  • RFC 3101, The OSPF Not-So-Stubby Area (NSSA) Option

  • RFC 3623, Graceful OSPF Restart

  • RFC 3630, Traffic Engineering (TE) Extensions to OSPF Version 2

  • RFC 4136, OSPF Refresh and Flooding Reduction in Stable Topologies

  • RFC 4203, OSPF Extensions in Support of Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS)

    Only interface switching is supported.

  • RFC 4552, Authentication/Confidentiality for OSPFv3

  • RFC 4576, Using a Link State Advertisement (LSA) Options Bit to Prevent Looping in BGP/MPLS IP Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)

  • RFC 4577, OSPF as the Provider/Customer Edge Protocol for BGP/MPLS IP Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)

  • RFC 4811, OSPF Out-of-Band Link State Database (LSDB) Resynchronization

  • RFC 4812, OSPF Restart Signaling

  • RFC 4813, OSPF Link-Local Signaling

  • RFC 4915, Multi-Topology (MT) Routing in OSPF

  • RFC 5185, OSPF Multi-Area Adjacency

  • RFC 5187, OSPFv3 Graceful Restart

  • RFC 5250, The OSPF Opaque LSA Option

    Note:

    RFC 4750, mentioned in this RFC as a "should" requirement is not supported. However, RFC 1850, the predecessor to RFC 4750 is supported.

  • RFC 5286, Basic Specification for IP Fast Reroute: Loop-Free Alternates

  • RFC 5340, OSPF for IPv6 (RFC 2740 is obsoleted by RFC 5340)

  • RFC 5709, OSPFv2 HMAC-SHA Cryptographic Authentication

  • RFC 5838, Support of Address Families in OSPFv3

  • Internet draft draft-ietf-ospf-af-alt-10.txt, Support of address families in OSPFv3

  • Internet draft draft-katz-ward-bfd-02.txt, Bidirectional Forwarding Detection

    Transmission of echo packets is not supported.

  • RFC 6549, OSPFv2 Multi-Instance Extensions

  • RFC 8665, OSPF Extensions for Segment Routing

  • Internet draft draft-ietf-lsr-flex-algo-07.txt, IGP Flexible Algorithm

The following RFCs do not define standards, but provide information about OSPF and related technologies. The IETF classifies them as “Informational.”

  • RFC 3137, OSPF Stub Router Advertisement

  • RFC 3509, Alternative Implementations of OSPF Area Border Routers

  • RFC 5309, Point-to-Point Operation over LAN in Link State Routing Protocols

  • RFC 8920, OSPF Application-Specific Link Attributes

  • RFC 8920, OSPFv2 Prefix/Link Attribute Advertisement

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