RFC 6374: Packet Loss and Delay Measurement for MPLS Networks

Many service provider service level agreements (SLAs) depend on the ability to measure and monitor performance metrics for packet loss and one-way and two-way…

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Outgoing relationships (24 related RFCs)

Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Normative reference — RFC 3031: Multiprotocol Label Switching Architecture
Normative reference — RFC 2474: Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS Field) in the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers
Normative reference — RFC 5905: Network Time Protocol Version 4: Protocol and Algorithms Specification
Normative reference — RFC 5586: MPLS Generic Associated Channel
Normative reference — RFC 3270: Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Support of Differentiated Services
Normative reference — RFC 5462: Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Label Stack Entry: "EXP" Field Renamed to "Traffic Class" Field
Informative reference — RFC 4301: Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 3209: RSVP-TE: Extensions to RSVP for LSP Tunnels
Informative reference — RFC 5920: Security Framework for MPLS and GMPLS Networks
Informative reference — RFC 5036: LDP Specification
Informative reference — RFC 3985: Pseudo Wire Emulation Edge-to-Edge (PWE3) Architecture
Informative reference — RFC 5357: A Two-Way Active Measurement Protocol (TWAMP)
Informative reference — RFC 4656: A One-way Active Measurement Protocol (OWAMP)
Informative reference — RFC 2679: A One-way Delay Metric for IPPM
Informative reference — RFC 2680: A One-way Packet Loss Metric for IPPM
Informative reference — RFC 5921: A Framework for MPLS in Transport Networks
Informative reference — RFC 5884: Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) for MPLS Label Switched Paths (LSPs)
Informative reference — RFC 3260: New Terminology and Clarifications for Diffserv
Informative reference — RFC 2681: A Round-trip Delay Metric for IPPM
Informative reference — RFC 5481: Packet Delay Variation Applicability Statement
Informative reference — RFC 5960: MPLS Transport Profile Data Plane Architecture
Informative reference — RFC 4928: Avoiding Equal Cost Multipath Treatment in MPLS Networks
Informative reference — RFC 6375: A Packet Loss and Delay Measurement Profile for MPLS-Based Transport Networks

Incoming relationships (24 related RFCs)

Updated by — RFC 7214: Moving Generic Associated Channel (G-ACh) IANA Registries to a New Registry
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6375: A Packet Loss and Delay Measurement Profile for MPLS-Based Transport Networks
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6669: An Overview of the Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) Toolset for MPLS-Based Transport Networks
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7487: Configuration of Proactive Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) Functions for MPLS-Based Transport Networks Using RSVP-TE
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7190: Use of Multipath with MPLS and MPLS Transport Profile (MPLS-TP)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9779: Performance Measurement for Segment Routing Networks with the MPLS Data Plane
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9974: Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) Requirements for the Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER) Layer
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7799: Active and Passive Metrics and Methods (with Hybrid Types In-Between)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7471: OSPF Traffic Engineering (TE) Metric Extensions
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7276: An Overview of Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) Tools
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9522: Overview and Principles of Internet Traffic Engineering
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9551: Framework of Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) for Deterministic Networking (DetNet)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7456: Loss and Delay Measurement in Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7810: IS-IS Traffic Engineering (TE) Metric Extensions
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8877: Guidelines for Defining Packet Timestamps
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6812: Cisco Service-Level Assurance Protocol
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7212: MPLS Generic Associated Channel (G-ACh) Advertisement Protocol
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8233: Extensions to the Path Computation Element Communication Protocol (PCEP) to Compute Service-Aware Label Switched Paths (LSPs)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8372: MPLS Flow Identification Considerations
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8924: Service Function Chaining (SFC) Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) Framework
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8957: Synonymous Flow Label Framework
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8169: Residence Time Measurement in MPLS Networks
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9978: Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) Stability
Informatively referenced by — RFC 10014: Guidelines for Characterizing the Term "OAM"