RFC 5250: The OSPF Opaque LSA Option

This document defines enhancements to the OSPF protocol to support a new class of link state advertisements (LSAs) called Opaque LSAs. Opaque LSAs provide a…

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Outgoing relationships (11 related RFCs)

Obsoletes, Informative reference — RFC 2370: The OSPF Opaque LSA Option
Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Normative reference — RFC 5226: Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs
Normative reference — RFC 1793: Extending OSPF to Support Demand Circuits
Normative reference — RFC 4750: OSPF Version 2 Management Information Base
Informative reference — RFC 3630: Traffic Engineering (TE) Extensions to OSPF Version 2
Informative reference — RFC 1584: Multicast Extensions to OSPF
Informative reference — RFC 4915: Multi-Topology (MT) Routing in OSPF
Informative reference — RFC 3101: The OSPF Not-So-Stubby Area (NSSA) Option
Informative reference — RFC 1765: OSPF Database Overflow
Informative reference — RFC 4576: Using a Link State Advertisement (LSA) Options Bit to Prevent Looping in BGP/MPLS IP Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)

Incoming relationships (11 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 7684: OSPFv2 Prefix/Link Attribute Advertisement
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5392: OSPF Extensions in Support of Inter-Autonomous System (AS) MPLS and GMPLS Traffic Engineering
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9129: YANG Data Model for the OSPF Protocol
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5787: OSPFv2 Routing Protocols Extensions for Automatically Switched Optical Network (ASON) Routing
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6827: Automatically Switched Optical Network (ASON) Routing for OSPFv2 Protocols
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9667: Dynamic Flooding on Dense Graphs
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7580: OSPF-TE Extensions for General Network Element Constraints
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8099: OSPF Topology-Transparent Zone
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7471: OSPF Traffic Engineering (TE) Metric Extensions
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9522: Overview and Principles of Internet Traffic Engineering
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7688: GMPLS OSPF Enhancement for Signal and Network Element Compatibility for Wavelength Switched Optical Networks