RFC 6178: Label Edge Router Forwarding of IPv4 Option Packets

This document specifies how Label Edge Routers (LERs) should behave when determining whether to MPLS encapsulate an IPv4 packet with header options. Lack of a…

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Outgoing relationships (14 related RFCs)

Updates, Normative reference — RFC 3031: Multiprotocol Label Switching Architecture
Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Normative reference — RFC 791: Internet Protocol
Normative reference — RFC 3032: MPLS Label Stack Encoding
Informative reference — RFC 2460: Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
Informative reference — RFC 3209: RSVP-TE: Extensions to RSVP for LSP Tunnels
Informative reference — RFC 2205: Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) -- Version 1 Functional Specification
Informative reference — RFC 4364: BGP/MPLS IP Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
Informative reference — RFC 4379: Detecting Multi-Protocol Label Switched (MPLS) Data Plane Failures
Informative reference — RFC 3270: Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Support of Differentiated Services
Informative reference — RFC 5462: Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Label Stack Entry: "EXP" Field Renamed to "Traffic Class" Field
Informative reference — RFC 3443: Time To Live (TTL) Processing in Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Networks
Informative reference — RFC 4381: Analysis of the Security of BGP/MPLS IP Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
Informative reference — RFC 4950: ICMP Extensions for Multiprotocol Label Switching

Incoming relationships (1 related RFC)

Informatively referenced by — RFC 6398: IP Router Alert Considerations and Usage