Standards compliance and protocol support

This chapter defines the supported standards and protocols for SR Linux.

Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)

RFC 5880, Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)

RFC 5881, Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) IPv4 and IPv6 (Single Hop)

RFC 5883, Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) for Multihop Paths

RFC 7130, Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) on Link Aggregation Group (LAG) Interfaces

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)

RFC 1772, Application of the Border Gateway Protocol in the Internet

RFC 1997, BGP Communities Attribute

RFC 2385, Protection of BGP Sessions via 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 – helper mode

RFC 4760, Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4

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

RFC 6286, Autonomous-System-Wide Unique BGP Identifier for BGP-4

RFC 7606, Revised Error Handling for BGP UPDATE Messages

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)

RFC 1542, Clarifications and Extensions for the Bootstrap Protocol

RFC 2131, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol – static address allocation

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 3046, DHCP Relay Agent Information Option

RFC 4649, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6) Relay Agent Remote-ID Option

RFC 8415, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6 – 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 802.1AB, Station and Media Access Control Connectivity Discovery

IEEE 802.1AX, Link Aggregation

IEEE 802.1p, Traffic Class Expediting

IEEE 802.1Q, Virtual LANs

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

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 Ethernet VPN (EVPN) – except Symmetric IRB

RFC 9136, IP Prefix Advertisement in Ethernet VPN (EVPN)– interface-less IP-VRF-to-IP-VRF

RFC 9161, Operational Aspects of Proxy ARP/ND in Ethernet Virtual Private Networks

Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS-IS)

ISO/IEC 10589:2002 Second Edition, Intermediate system to Intermediate system intra-domain routeing information exchange protocol for use in conjunction with the protocol for providing the connectionless-mode Network Service (ISO 8473)

RFC 1195, Use of OSI IS-IS for Routing in TCP/IP and Dual Environments

RFC 3719, Recommendations for Interoperable Networks using Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS-IS)

RFC 3787, Recommendations for Interoperable IP Networks using Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS-IS)

RFC 5120, M-ISIS: Multi Topology (MT) Routing in IS-IS

RFC 5130, A Policy Control Mechanism in IS-IS Using Administrative Tags

RFC 5301, Dynamic Hostname Exchange Mechanism for IS-IS

RFC 5302, Domain-wide Prefix Distribution with Two-Level IS-IS

RFC 5303, Three-Way Handshake for IS-IS Point-to-Point Adjacencies

RFC 5304, IS-IS Cryptographic Authentication

RFC 5306, Restart Signaling for IS-IS – helper mode

RFC 5308, Routing IPv6 with IS-IS

RFC 6232, Purge Originator Identification TLV for IS-IS

Internet (IP) general

draft-grant-tacacs-02.txt, TACACS+ Protocol – Authentication and Accounting

RFC 2865, Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS)

RFC 2866, RADIUS Accounting

RFC 3162, RADIUS and IPv6

RFC 3164, The BSD syslog Protocol

RFC 4250, RFC 4291, IPv6 Addressing Architecture

RFC 4251, The Secure Shell (SSH) Protocol Architecture

RFC 4252, The Secure Shell (SSH) Authentication Protocol

RFC 4253, The Secure Shell (SSH) Transport Layer Protocol

RFC 4254, The Secure Shell (SSH) Connection Protocol

Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) general

RFC 768, User Datagram Protocol

RFC 791, Internet Protocol

RFC 792, Internet Control Message Protocol

RFC 793, Transmission Control Protocol

RFC 826, An Ethernet Address Resolution Protocol

RFC 1191, Path MTU Discovery – router specification

RFC 1519, Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR): an Address Assignment and Aggregation Strategy

RFC 1812, Requirements for IPv4 Routers

RFC 5227, IPv4 Address Conflict Detection

Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)

RFC 2464, Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Ethernet Networks

RFC 3587, IPv6 Global Unicast Address Format

RFC 4007, IPv6 Scoped Address Architecture

RFC 4291, Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Addressing Architecture

RFC 4443, Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification

RFC 4861, Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6 (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 IP version 6

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)

RFC 3032, MPLS Label Stack Encoding

RFC 3270, Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Support of Differentiated Services – E-LSP

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

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)

RFC 1765, OSPF Database Overflow

RFC 2328, OSPF Version 2

RFC 2740, OSPF for IPv6

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

RFC 3137, OSPF Stub Router Advertisement

Segment Routing (SR)

RFC 8667, IS-IS Extensions for Segment Routing

Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)

RFC 1907, Management Information Base for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2) – partial compliance

RFC 2863, The Interfaces Group MIB – partial compliance

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

Yet Another Next Generation (YANG)

RFC 8343, A YANG Data Model for Interface Management

RFC 8344, A YANG Data Model for IP Management