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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 1981, Path MTU Discovery for IP version 6
- RFC 2373, IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture
- RFC 2460, Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
- RFC 2461, Neighbor Discovery for IP Version 6 (IPv6)
- RFC 2462, IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration
- RFC 2463, Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the 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 2767, Dual Stack Hosts using the "Bump-In-the-Stack" Technique (BIS)
- RFC 2878, PPP Bridging Control Protocol (BCP)
- RFC 2893, Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts and Routers
- 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 3768, Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
- RFC 3810, Multicast Listener Discovery Version 2 (MLDv2) for IPv6
- RFC 4291, IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture
- RFC 4443, Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
- 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 5095, Deprecation of Type 0 Routing Headers in IPv6
- RFC 5308, Routing IPv6 with IS-IS
- RFC 5575, Dissemination of Flow Specification Rules
- RFC 5798, Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) Version 3 for IPv4 and IPv6
- 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-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.
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Published: 2013-03-05
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