RFC 6198: Requirements for the Graceful Shutdown of BGP Sessions

The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is heavily used in Service Provider networks for both Internet and BGP/MPLS VPN services. For resiliency purposes, redundant…

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Outgoing relationships (9 related RFCs)

Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Normative reference — RFC 4271: A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)
Normative reference — RFC 4364: BGP/MPLS IP Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
Normative reference — RFC 4760: Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4
Normative reference — RFC 4456: BGP Route Reflection: An Alternative to Full Mesh Internal BGP (IBGP)
Informative reference — RFC 5714: IP Fast Reroute Framework
Informative reference — RFC 4724: Graceful Restart Mechanism for BGP
Informative reference — RFC 5715: A Framework for Loop-Free Convergence
Informative reference — RFC 5817: Graceful Shutdown in MPLS and Generalized MPLS Traffic Engineering Networks