RFC 5556: Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL): Problem and Applicability Statement

Current IEEE 802.1 LANs use spanning tree protocols that have a number of challenges. These protocols need to strictly avoid loops, even temporary ones,…

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Outgoing relationships (10 related RFCs)

Informative reference — RFC 4861: Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6 (IPv6)
Informative reference — RFC 826: An Ethernet Address Resolution Protocol: Or Converting Network Protocol Addresses to 48.bit Ethernet Address for Transmission on Ethernet Hardware
Informative reference — RFC 1812: Requirements for IP Version 4 Routers
Informative reference — RFC 3376: Internet Group Management Protocol, Version 3
Informative reference — RFC 3971: SEcure Neighbor Discovery (SEND)
Informative reference — RFC 3927: Dynamic Configuration of IPv4 Link-Local Addresses
Informative reference — RFC 3819: Advice for Internet Subnetwork Designers
Informative reference — RFC 4541: Considerations for Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) Snooping Switches
Informative reference — RFC 4286: Multicast Router Discovery
Informative reference — RFC 4826: Extensible Markup Language (XML) Formats for Representing Resource Lists

Incoming relationships (4 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 7637: NVGRE: Network Virtualization Using Generic Routing Encapsulation
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6325: Routing Bridges (RBridges): Base Protocol Specification
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6606: Problem Statement and Requirements for IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Network (6LoWPAN) Routing
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6850: Definitions of Managed Objects for Routing Bridges (RBridges)