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Supported IPv6 Standards

Junos OS substantially supports the following RFCs and Internet drafts, which define standards for IP version 6 (IPv6).

  • RFC 1157, A Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
  • RFC 1195, Use of OSI IS-IS for Routing in TCP/IP and Dual Environments
  • RFC 1213, Management Information Base for Network Management of TCP/IP-based internets: MIB-II

    Only the following features are supported:

    • Junos OS-specific secured access list
    • Master configuration keywords
    • MIB II and its SNMP version 2 derivatives, including the following:

      • Interface management
      • IP (except for the ipRouteTable object, which has been replaced by inetCidrRouteTable [RFC 4292, IP Forwarding Table MIB])

        Note: RFC 2096 has been replaced by RFC 4292. However, Junos OS currently supports both RFC 2096 and RFC 4292.

      • SNMP management
      • Statistics counters
    • Reconfigurations upon receipt of the SIGHUP signal
    • SNMP version 1 Get and GetNext requests and version 2 GetBulk requests
  • RFC 1215, A Convention for Defining Traps for use with the SNMP

    Only MIB II SNMP version 1 traps and version 2 notifications are supported.

  • RFC 1771, A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)
  • RFC 1772, Application of the Border Gateway Protocol in the Internet
  • RFC 1902, Structure of Management Information for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)
  • RFC 1905, Protocol Operations for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)
  • RFC 1981, Path MTU Discovery for IP version 6
  • RFC 2080, RIPng for IPv6
  • RFC 2081, RIPng Protocol Applicability Statement
  • RFC 2283, Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4
  • RFC 2373, IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture
  • RFC 2375 Multicast Address Assignments
  • RFC 2460, Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
  • RFC 2464, Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Ethernet Networks
  • RFC 2465, Management Information Base for IP Version 6: Textual Conventions and General Group

    IP version 6 (IPv6) and Internet Control Message Protocol version 6 (ICMPv6) statistics are not supported.

  • RFC 2472, IP Version 6 over PPP
  • RFC 2474, Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS Field) in the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers
  • RFC 2491, IPv6 Over Non-Broadcast Multiple Access (NBMA) networks
  • RFC 2492, IPv6 over ATM Networks
  • RFC 2526, Reserved IPv6 Subnet Anycast Addresses
  • RFC 2545, Use of BGP-4 Multiprotocol Extensions for IPv6 Inter-Domain Routing
  • RFC 2578, Structure of Management Information Version 2 (SMIv2)
  • RFC 2675, IPv6 Jumbograms
  • RFC 2711, IPv6 Router Alert Option
  • RFC 2740, OSPF for IPv6 (partial support for RFC 5340)

    Junos OS does not support the following components of RFC 5340:

    • Multiple interfaces on the same link
    • Deprecation of Multicast Extensions to OSPF (MOSPF) for IPv6
    • Not-so-stubby area (NSSA) specification
    • Link LSA suppression
    • LSA options and prefix options updates
    • IPv6 site-local addresses
  • RFC 2784, Generic Routing Encapsulation
  • RFC 2878, PPP Bridging Control Protocol (BCP)
  • RFC 2893, Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts and Routers
  • RFC 3306, Unicast-Prefix-based IPv6 Multicast Addresses
  • RFC 3307, Allocation Guidelines for IPv6 Multicast Addresses
  • RFC 3315, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6)

    Address assignment is supported with IP version 4 (IPv4) but not IP version 6 (IPv6).

  • RFC 3484, Default Address Selection for Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
  • RFC 3513, Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Addressing Architecture
  • RFC 3515, The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Refer Method
  • RFC 3590, Source Address Selection for the Multicast Listener D (Supported for SSM include mode only)
  • RFC 3768, Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
  • RFC 3810, Multicast Listener Discovery Version 2 (MLDv2) for IPv6
  • RFC 3971, Secure Neighbor Discovery for IPv6 (No support for certification paths, anchored on trusted parties)
  • RFC 3972, Cryptographically Generated Addresses
  • RFC 3972, Cryptographically Generated Addresses
  • RFC 4087, IP Tunnel MIB
  • RFC 4291, IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture
  • RFC 4292, IP Forwarding Table MIB
  • RFC 4294, IPv6 Node Requirements (Partial support)
  • RFC 4443, Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
  • RFC 4552, Authentication/Confidentiality for OSPFv3
  • RFC 4604, Using Internet Group Management Protocol Version 3 (IGMPv3)
  • RFC 4659, BGP-MPLS IP Virtual Private Network (VPN) Extension for IPv6 VPN
  • 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 4861 Neighbor Discovery for IP Version 6 (IPv6)
  • RFC 4862, IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration
  • RFC 4890, Recommendations for Filtering ICMPv6 Messages in Firewalls
  • RFC 4942, IPv6 Transition/Coexistence Security Considerations
  • RFC 5072, IP Version 6 over PPP
  • RFC 5095, Deprecation of Type 0 Routing Headers in IPv6
  • RFC 5308, Routing IPv6 with IS-IS
  • RFC 5798, Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) Version 3 for IPv4 and IPv6
  • RFC 5905, Network Time Protocol Version 4 (for IPv6)
  • RFC 6164, Using 127-Bit IPv6 Prefixes on Inter-Router Links
  • RFC 6527, Definitions of Managed Objects for the Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol Version 3 (VRRPv3)

    The following features are not supported:

    • Row creation
    • Set operation
    • vrrpv3StatisticsPacketLengthErrors MIB object
    • vrrpv3StatisticsRowDiscontinuityTime MIB object
  • Internet draft draft-ietf-l3vpn-bgp-ipv6-07.txt, BGP-MPLS IP VPN extension for IPv6 VPN
  • Internet draft draft-ietf-idr-flow-spec-00.txt, Dissemination of flow specification rules
  • Internet draft draft-ietf-softwire-dual-stack-lite-04.txt, Dual-Stack Lite Broadband Deployments Following IPv4 Exhaustion
  • 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 IPv6 and related technologies. The IETF classifies them variously as “Experimental” or “Informational.”

  • RFC 1901, Introduction to Community-based SNMPv2
  • RFC 2767, Dual Stack Hosts using the "Bump-In-the-Stack" Technique (BIS)
  • RFC 3587, IPv6 Global Unicast Address Format
  • Internet draft draft-ietf-ngtrans-bgp-tunnel-04.txt, Connecting IPv6 Islands across IPv4 Clouds with BGP

    Only MP-BGP over IP version 4 (IPv4) approach is supported.

Published: 2013-03-05