Standards compliance and protocol support
This chapter defines the supported standards and protocols for SR Linux.
Standards Compliance
IEEE 802.1ab-REV/D3 Station and Media Access Control Connectivity Discovery
IEEE 802.1p/Q VLAN Tagging
IEEE 802.1AX (formerly 802.3AD) Link Aggregation
IEEE 802.3ae 10Gbps Ethernet
IEEE 802.3ba 100 Gb/s Ethernet
IEEE 802.3u 100BaseTX
IEEE 802.3z 1000BaseSX/LX
Protocol support
BGP
RFC 1772 Application of BGP in the Internet
RFC 1997 BGP Communities Attribute
RFC 2385 Protection of BGP Sessions via MD5
RFC 2918 Route Refresh Capability for BGP-4
RFC 5492 Capabilities Advertisement with BGP-4
RFC 4271 BGP-4
RFC 4360 BGP Extended Communities Attribute
RFC 4760 Multi-protocol Extensions for BGP
RFC 4893 BGP Support for Four-octet AS Number Space
RFC 5668 4-Octet AS Specific BGP Extended Community Capability for BGP-4
RFC 4724 - Graceful Restart Mechanism for BGP
RFC 5549 - Advertising Ipv4 Network Layer Reachability Information with an IPv6 Next Hop
RFC 2545 - Use of BGP-4 Multiprotocol Extensions for IPv6 Inter-Domain Routing
RFC 7705 - Autonomous System Migration Mechanisms and Their Effects on the BGP AS_PATH Attribute
RFC 4456 - BGP Route Reflection - An Alternative to Full Mesh Internal BGP (IBGP)
RFC 4486 - Subcodes for BGP Cease Notification Message
RFC 7606 - Revised Error Handling for BGP
RFC 6286 - Autonomous-System Wide Unique BGP Identifier for BGP-4
RFC 8212 - Default External BGP (EBGP) Route Propagation Behavior without Policies
DHCP relay
RFC2131 Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
RFC2132 DHCP Options and BOOTP Vendor Extensions
RFC1542 Clarifications and Extensions for the Bootstrap Protocol
RFC3046 DHCP Relay Agent Information Option
RFC8415 Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6)
RFC4649 DHCPv6 Relay Agent Remote-ID Option
DHCP server
RFC 2131 - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (only static address allocation. No dynamic address)
RFC 2132 (sections 3.1, 3.2, 3.3 , 3.5 , 3.8, 3.14, 3.17, 9.2, 9.6)
RFC 3315 (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)
EVPN
RFC8365 A Network Virtualization Overlay Solution Using Ethernet VPN (EVPN)
RFC9135 Integrated Routing and Bridging in EVPN (except the Symmetric IRB section)
RFC9136 IP Prefix Advertisement in EVPN (Interface-less IP-VRF-to-IP[1]VRF Model)
IPv4
RFC 768 UDP
RFC 791 IP
RFC 792 ICMP
RFC 793 TCP
RFC 826 ARP
RFC 1519 CIDR
RFC 1812 Requirements for IPv4 Routers
RFC 1191 - Path MTU Discovery
RFC 5227 - IPv4 Address Conflict Detection
IPv6
RFC 8200 Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
RFC 4861 Neighbor Discovery for IPv6
RFC 4443 Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 Specification
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 Architectur
RFC 6164 Using 127-Bit IPv6 Prefixes on Inter-Router Links
RFC 2131 - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
RFC 8201 - Path MTU discovery for IPv6
RFC 8415 - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6)
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 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 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 5308 - Routing IPv6 with IS-IS
RFC 6232 - Purge Originator Identification TLV for IS-IS
MPLS
RFC 5036 LDP Specification
RFC 3032 MPLS Label Stack Encoding
RFC 3443 Time To Live (TTL) Processing in Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Networks
RFC 4950 ICMP Extensions for Multiprotocol Label Switching
RFC 3270 Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Support of Differentiated Services
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
OAM
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
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
Segment routing
RFC 8667 IS-IS Extensions for Segment Routing
SSH
draft-ietf-secsh-architecture.txt SSH Protocol Architecture
draft-ietf-secsh-userauth.txt SSH Authentication Protocol
draft-ietf-secsh-transport.txt SSH Transport Layer Protocol
draft-ietf-secsh-connection.txt SSH Connection Protocol
draft-ietf-secsh-newmodes.txt SSH Transport Layer Encryption Modes
TACACS+
draft-grant-tacacs-02.txt (partial compliance- accounts and authentication only)