List of supported capabilities

In addition to the base protocol implementation, the plugin provides many extensions to BGP, all based on IETF standards.

• RFC4271 - A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)

• RFC4456 - BGP Route Reflection: An Alternative to Full Mesh Internal BGP (IBGP)

• RFC1997 - BGP Communities Attribute

• RFC4360 - BGP Extended Communities Attribute

• RFC4486 - Subcodes for BGP Cease Notification Message

• RFC5492 - Capabilities Advertisement with BGP-4

• RFC5004 - Avoid BGP Best Path Transitions from One External to Another

• RFC6286 - Autonomous-System-Wide Unique BGP Identifier for BGP-4

• RFC6793 - BGP Support for Four-Octet Autonomous System (AS) Number Space

• RFC7311 - The Accumulated IGP Metric Attribute for BGP

• RFC5668 - 4-Octet AS Specific BGP Extended Community

• draft-ietf-idr-link-bandwidth - BGP Link Bandwidth Extended Community

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

• RFC4760 - Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4

  • RFC7752 - North-Bound Distribution of Link-State and TE Information using BGP

    • draft-gredler-idr-bgp-ls-segment-routing-ext - BGP Link-State extensions for Segment Routing

    • draft-ietf-idr-bgpls-segment-routing-epe - Segment Routing Egress Peer Engineering BGP-LS Extensions

  • RFC5575 - Dissemination of Flow Specification Rules

    • RFC7674 - Clarification of the Flowspec Redirect Extended Community

    • draft-ietf-idr-flow-spec-v6 - Dissemination of Flow Specification Rules for IPv6

    • draft-ietf-idr-flowspec-redirect-ip - BGP Flow-Spec Redirect to IP Action

  • RFC3107 - Carrying Label Information in BGP-4

    • draft-ietf-idr-bgp-prefix-sid - Segment Routing Prefix SID extensions for BGP

  • RFC4364 - BGP/MPLS IP Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)

    • RFC4659 - BGP-MPLS IP Virtual Private Network (VPN) Extension for IPv6 VPN

  • RFC6513 - Multicast in MPLS/BGP IP VPNs (VPNs)

    • RFC6514 - BGP Encodings and Procedures for Multicast in MPLS/BGP IP VPNs

    • RFC6515 - IPv4 and IPv6 Infrastructure Addresses in BGP Updates for Multicast VPN

    • RFC4684 - Constrained Route Distribution for Border Gateway Protocol/MultiProtocol Label Switching (BGP/MPLS) Internet Protocol (IP) Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)

  • RFC7432 - BGP MPLS-Based Ethernet VPN

    • draft-ietf-bess-evpn-overlay - A Network Virtualization Overlay Solution using EVPN

    • draft-ietf-bess-evpn-vpws - VPWS support in EVPN

    • draft-sajassi-bess-evpn-vpws-fxc-01 - EVPN VPWS Flexible Cross-Connect Service

• RFC7911 - Advertisement of Multiple Paths in BGP

• RFC2918 - Route Refresh Capability for BGP-4

• RFC4724 - Graceful Restart Mechanism for BGP

  • draft-uttaro-idr-bgp-persistence-04 - Support for Long-lived BGP Graceful Restart

• RFC7606 - Revised Error Handling for BGP UPDATE Messages

• RFC8212 - Default External BGP (EBGP) Route Propagation Behavior without Policies