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Supported BGP Standards

Junos OS substantially supports the following RFCs and Internet drafts, which define standards for IP version 4 (IPv4) BGP.

For a list of supported IP version 6 (IPv6) BGP standards, see Supported IPv6 Standards.

Junos OS BGP supports authentication for protocol exchanges (MD5 authentication).

  • RFC 1745, BGP4/IDRP for IP—OSPF Interaction
  • RFC 1772, Application of the Border Gateway Protocol in the Internet
  • RFC 1997, BGP Communities Attribute
  • RFC 2283, Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4
  • RFC 2385, Protection of BGP Sessions via the TCP MD5 Signature Option
  • RFC 2439, BGP Route Flap Damping
  • RFC 2545, Use of BGP-4 Multiprotocol Extensions for IPv6 Inter-Domain Routing
  • RFC 2796, BGP Route Reflection – An Alternative to Full Mesh IBGP
  • RFC 2858, Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4
  • RFC 2918, Route Refresh Capability for BGP-4
  • RFC 3065, Autonomous System Confederations for BGP
  • RFC 3107, Carrying Label Information in BGP-4
  • RFC 3392, Capabilities Advertisement with BGP-4
  • RFC 4271, A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)
  • RFC 4273, Definitions of Managed Objects for BGP-4
  • RFC 4360, BGP Extended Communities Attribute
  • RFC 4364, BGP/MPLS IP Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
  • RFC 4456, BGP Route Reflection: An Alternative to Full Mesh Internal BGP (IBGP)
  • RFC 4486, Subcodes for BGP Cease Notification Message
  • RFC 4659, BGP-MPLS IP Virtual Private Network (VPN) Extension for IPv6 VPN
  • RFC 4632, Classless Inter-domain Routing (CIDR): The Internet Address Assignment and Aggregation Plan
  • RFC 4684, Constrained Route Distribution for Border Gateway Protocol/MultiProtocol Label Switching (BGP/MPLS) Internet Protocol (IP) Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
  • RFC 4724, Graceful Restart Mechanism for BGP
  • RFC 4760, Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4
  • RFC 4781, Graceful Restart Mechanism for BGP with MPLS
  • RFC 4798, Connecting IPv6 Islands over IPv4 MPLS Using IPv6 Provider Edge Routers (6PE)

    Option 4b (eBGP redistribution of labeled IPv6 routes from AS to neighboring AS) is not supported.

  • RFC 4893, BGP Support for Four-octet AS Number Space
  • RFC 5004, Avoid BGP Best Path Transitions from One External to Another
  • RFC 5065, Autonomous System Confederations for BGP
  • RFC 5291, Outbound Route Filtering Capability for BGP-4 (partial support)
  • RFC 5292, Address-Prefix-Based Outbound Route Filter for BGP-4 (partial support)

    Devices running Junos OS can receive prefix-based ORF messages.

  • RFC 5396, Textual Representation of Autonomous System (AS) Numbers
  • RFC 5492, Capabilities Advertisement with BGP-4
  • RFC 5668, 4-Octet AS Specific BGP Extended Community
  • RFC 6368, Internal BGP as the Provider/Customer Edge Protocol for BGP/MPLS IP Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
  • RFC 6810, The Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) to Router Protocol
  • RFC 6811, BGP Prefix Origin Validation
  • RFC 7311, The Accumulated IGP Metric Attribute for BGP
  • Internet draft draft-ietf-idr-add-paths-04.txt, Advertisement of Multiple Paths in BGP (expires February 2011)
  • Internet draft draft-ietf-idr-flow-spec-00.txt, Dissemination of flow specification rules
  • Internet draft draft-ietf-idr-link-bandwidth-01.txt, BGP Link Bandwidth Extended Community (expires August 2010)
  • Internet draft draft-ietf-sidr-origin-validation-signaling-00, BGP Prefix Origin Validation State Extended Community (partial support) (expires May 2011)

    The extended community (origin validation state) is supported in Junos OS routing policy. The specified change in the route selection procedure is not supported.

  • Internet draft draft-kato-bgp-ipv6-link-local-00.txt, BGP4+ Peering Using IPv6 Link-local Address

The following RFCs and Internet draft do not define standards, but provide information about BGP and related technologies. The IETF classifies them variously as “Experimental” or “Informational.”

  • RFC 1965, Autonomous System Confederations for BGP
  • RFC 1966, BGP Route Reflection—An alternative to full mesh IBGP
  • RFC 2270, Using a Dedicated AS for Sites Homed to a Single Provider
  • Internet draft draft-ietf-ngtrans-bgp-tunnel-04.txt, Connecting IPv6 Islands across IPv4 Clouds with BGP (expires July 2002)

Published: 2014-08-18