RFC Information

ExaBGP MAY violate some of the MUST requirement of some RFC (most likely by mistake). I am not aware of any interoperability issues.

RFC (fully or partially) implemented

• RFC 1997 - BGP Communities Attribute
• RFC 2385 - Protection of BGP Sessions via the TCP MD5 Signature (for OSes supporting TCP_MD5SIG)
• RFC 2545 - Use of BGP-4 Multiprotocol Extensions for IPv6 Inter-Domain Routing
• RFC 3107 - Carrying Label Information in BGP-4
• RFC 3765 - NOPEER Community for Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Route Scope Control
• RFC 4271 - A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4), Obsoletes: 1771
• RFC 4360 - BGP Extended Communities Attribute
• RFC 4364 - Constrained Route Distribution for BGP/MPLS IP VPNs
• RFC 4456 - BGP Route Reflection: An Alternative to Full Mesh Internal BGP (IBGP)
• RFC 4659 - BGP-MPLS IP Virtual Private Network (VPN) Extension for IPv6 VPN
• RFC 4724 - Graceful Restart Mechanism for BGP
• RFC 4760 - Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4, Obsoletes: 2858
• RFC 4893 - BGP Support for Four-octet AS Number Space
• RFC 5492 - Capabilities Advertisement with BGP-4, Obsoletes 3392,2842
• RFC 5396 - Textual Representation of Autonomous System (AS) Numbers
• RFC 5492 - Capabilities Advertisement with BGP-4
• RFC 5575 - Dissemination of Flow Specification Rules
• RFC 6286 - Autonomous-System-Wide Unique BGP Identifier for BGP-4
• RFC 6608 - Subcodes for BGP Finite State Machine Error
• draft-scudder-bmp-01 - BGP Monitoring Protocol v1
• draft-ietf-idr-add-paths-08 - Advertisement of Multiple Paths in BGP
• draft-raszuk-idr-flow-spec-v6-03 - Dissemination of Flow Specification Rules for IPv6
• draft-ietf-idr-bgp-multisession-07 - Multisession BGP
• draft-ietf-idr-flowspec-redirect-ip-00 - BGP Flow-Spec Extended Community for Traffic Redirect to IP Next Hop

Planned development

• draft-ietf-grow-bmp-07 - BGP Monitoring Protocol
• draft-frs-bgp-operational-message-00 - BGP OPERATIONAL Message
• RFC 2918 Route Refresh Capability for BGP-4

The following BG4 RFC look like reading material

• MRT helper programs

• RFC 6396 - Multi-Threaded Routing Toolkit (MRT) - Routing Information Export Format

• draft-ietf-idr-error-handling-03 - Revised Error Handling for BGP UPDATE Messages

• draft-ietf-idr-bgp-extended-messages - Extended Message support for BGP

• RFC 5701 - IPv6 Address Specific BGP Extended Community Attribute

• draft-ietf-idr-ix-bgp-route-server-01 - Internet Exchange Route Server

• RFC 4684 - Constrained Route Distribution for BGP/MPLS IP VPNs

• draft-ietf-idr-as0-05 - Codification of AS 0 processing

• draft-ietf-grow-bgp-gshut-03 - Graceful BGP session shutdown

• RFC 3065 Autonomous System Confederations for BGP

• RFC 5549 Advertising IPv4 Network Layer Reachability Information with an IPv6 Next Hop

All current BGP RFC and drafts

• [https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/idr/]