Standards compliance and protocol support
This chapter defines the supported standards and protocols for SR Linux.
The information provided in this chapter is subject to change without notice and may not apply to all platforms. Nokia assumes no responsibility for inaccuracies.
Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)
RFC 5880, Bidirectional Forwarding Detection
RFC 5881, BFD IPv4 (Single Hop)
RFC 5883, BFD for Multihop Paths
RFC 7130, BFD on Link Aggregation Group (LAG) Interfaces
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
RFC 1772, Application of BGP in the Internet
RFC 1997, BGP Communities Attribute
RFC 2385, Protection of BGP Sessions vvia the TCP MD5 Signature Option
RFC 2545, Use of BGP-4 Multiprotocol Extensions for IPv6 Inter-Domain Routing
RFC 2918, Route Refresh Capability for BGP-4
RFC 4271, A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)
RFC 4360, BGP Extended Communities Attribute
RFC 4456, BGP Route Reflection: An Alternative to Full Mesh Internal BGP (IBGP)
RFC 4486, Subcodes for BGP Cease Notification Message
RFC 4724, Graceful Restart Mechanism for BGP
RFC 4760, Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP
RFC 4893, BGP Support for Four-octet AS Number Space
RFC 5492, Capabilities Advertisement with BGP-4
RFC 5549, Advertising IPv4 Network Layer Reachability Information with an IPv6 Next Hop
RFC 5668, 4-Octet AS Specific BGP Extended Community Capability for BGP-4
RFC 6286, Autonomous-System Wide Unique BGP Identifier for BGP-4
RFC 7606, Revised Error Handling for BGP
RFC 7705, Autonomous System Migration Mechanisms and Their Effects on the BGP AS_PATH Attribute
RFC 8212, Default External BGP (EBGP) Route Propagation Behavior without Policies
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) relay
RFC 1542, Clarifications and Extensions for the Bootstrap Protocol
RFC 2131, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
RFC 2132, DHCP Options and BOOTP Vendor Extensions
RFC 3046, DHCP Relay Agent Information Option
RFC 4649, DHCPv6 Relay Agent Remote-ID Option
RFC 8415, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6)
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server
RFC 2131, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol – only static address allocation; no dynamic address
RFC 2132, DHCP Options and BOOTP Vendor Extensions – sections 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.5, 3.8, 3.14, 3.17, 9.2, 9.6
RFC 3315, DHCP for IPv6 – sections 17, 17.2, 17.2.1, 17.2.2, 17.2.3, 18.2, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3, 22.4, 22.6, 22.7, 22.13
Ethernet
IEEE 802.1AB REV/D3, Station and Media Access Control Connectivity Discovery
IEEE 802.1ax, Link Aggregation
IEEE 802.3ae, 10Gbps Ethernet
IEEE 802.3ba, 100 Gb/s Ethernet
IEEE 802.1p/Q, VLAN Tagging
IEEE 802.3u, 100BaseTX
IEEE 802.3z, 1000BaseSX/LX
Ethernet VPN (EVPN)
draft-sajassi-bess-evpn-ip-aliasing-05, EVPN Support for L3 Fast Convergence and Aliasing/Backup Path – for IP-VRF to IP-VRF use cases
RFC 8365, A Network Virtualization Overlay Solution Using Ethernet VPN (EVPN)
RFC 9047, Propagation of ARP/ND Flags in an Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN)
RFC 9135, Integrated Routing and Bridging in EVPN – except the Symmetric IRB section
RFC 9136, IP Prefix Advertisement in EVPN – interface-less IP-VRF-to-IP[1]VRF model
RFC 9161, Operational Aspects of Proxy ARP/ND in EVPN Networks
Internet Protocol verson 4 (IPv4)
RFC 768, User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
RFC 791, Internet Protocol
RFC 792, Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)
RFC 793, Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
RFC 826, Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
RFC 1191, Path MTU Discovery
RFC 1519, Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR)
RFC 1812, Requirements for IPv4 Routers
RFC 5227, IPv4 Address Conflict Detection
Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
RFC 2131, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
RFC 2464, Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Ethernet Networks
RFC 3587, IPv6 Global Unicast Address Format
RFC 4007, IPv6 Scoped Address Architecture
RFC 4291, IPv6 Addressing Architecture
RFC 4443, Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 Specification
RFC 4861, Neighbor Discovery for IPv6
RFC 6164, Using 127-Bit IPv6 Prefixes on Inter-Router Links
RFC 8200, Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
RFC 8201, Path MTU Discovery for IPv6
RFC 8415, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6)
Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS-IS)
RFC 1142, OSI IS-IS Intra-domain Routing Protocol (ISO 10589)
RFC 1195, Use of OSI IS-IS for routing in TCP/IP and dual environments
RFC 3719, Recommendations for Interoperable Networks using IS-IS
RFC 3787, Recommendations for Interoperable IP Networks
RFC 5120, M-ISIS: Multi Topology (MT) Routing in Intermediate System to Intermediate Systems (IS-ISs)
RFC 5130, A Policy Control Mechanism in IS-IS Using Administrative Tags
RFC 5301, Dynamic Hostname Exchange for IS-IS
RFC 5302, Domain-wide Prefix Distribution with Two-Level IS-IS
RFC 5303, Three-Way Handshake for Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS-IS) Point-to-Point, Adjacencies
RFC 5304, Intermediate System to Intermediate System (ISIS) Cryptographic Authentication
RFC 5306, Restart Signaling for IS-IS – GR Helper
RFC 5308, Routing IPv6 with IS-IS
RFC 6232, Purge Originator Identification TLV for IS-IS
Internet Protocol (IP) general
draft-grant-tacacs-02.txt, TACACS+ Protocol – partial compliance; accounts and authentication only
draft-ietf-secsh-architecture.txt, SSH Protocol Architecture
draft-ietf-secsh-connection.txt, SSH Connection Protocol
draft-ietf-secsh-newmodes.txt, SSH Transport Layer Encryption Modes
draft-ietf-secsh-transport.txt, SSH Transport Layer Protocol
draft-ietf-secsh-userauth.txt, SSH Authentication Protocol
Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
RFC 3032, MPLS Label Stack Encoding
RFC 3270, Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Support of Differentiated Services
RFC 3443, Time To Live (TTL) Processing in Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Networks
RFC 4950, ICMP Extensions for Multiprotocol Label Switching
RFC 5036, LDP Specification
Network management
RFC 1907, SNMPv2-MIB – partial compliance only
RFC 2863, IF MIB – partial compliance only
RFC 3164, Syslog
RFC 3411, An Architecture for Describing Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Management Frameworks
RFC 3412, Message Processing and Dispatching for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
RFC 3413, Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Applications
RFC 8343, A YANG Data Model for Interface Management
RFC 8344, A YANG Data Model for IP Management
Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
RFC 1765, OSPF Database Overflow
RFC 2328, OSPF Version 2
RFC 2740, OSPF for IPv6 (OSPFv3)
RFC 3101, OSPF NSSA Option
RFC 3137, OSPF Stub Router Advertisement
RFC 3623, Graceful OSPF Restart
Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS)
RFC 2865, Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS)
RFC 2866, RADIUS Accounting
RFC 3162, RADIUS and IPv6
Segment Routing (SR)
RFC 8667, IS-IS Extensions for Segment Routing