RFC 2545: Use of BGP-4 Multiprotocol Extensions for IPv6 Inter-Domain Routing

BGP-4 Multiprotocol Extensions (BGP-MP) defines the format of two BGP attributes (MP_REACH_NLRI and MP_UNREACH_NLRI) that can be used to announce and withdraw…

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Outgoing relationships (6 related RFCs)

Informative reference — RFC 2460: Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
Informative reference — RFC 2461: Neighbor Discovery for IP Version 6 (IPv6)
Informative reference — RFC 2373: IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture
Informative reference — RFC 1771: A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)
Informative reference — RFC 2080: RIPng for IPv6
Informative reference — RFC 2283: Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4

Incoming relationships (12 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 7752: North-Bound Distribution of Link-State and Traffic Engineering (TE) Information Using BGP
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9552: Distribution of Link-State and Traffic Engineering Information Using BGP
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9252: BGP Overlay Services Based on Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5549: Advertising IPv4 Network Layer Reachability Information with an IPv6 Next Hop
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9830: Advertising Segment Routing Policies in BGP
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8950: Advertising IPv4 Network Layer Reachability Information (NLRI) with an IPv6 Next Hop
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9723: BGP Colored Prefix Routing (CPR) for Services Based on Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9832: BGP Classful Transport Planes
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9871: BGP Color-Aware Routing (CAR)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3056: Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds
Informatively referenced by — RFC 4029: Scenarios and Analysis for Introducing IPv6 into ISP Networks
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7747: Basic BGP Convergence Benchmarking Methodology for Data-Plane Convergence