RFC 4116: IPv4 Multihoming Practices and Limitations

Multihoming is an essential component of service for many Internet sites. This document describes some implementation strategies for multihoming with IPv4 and…

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Outgoing relationships (7 related RFCs)

Informative reference — RFC 1918: Address Allocation for Private Internets
Informative reference — RFC 1519: Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR): an Address Assignment and Aggregation Strategy
Informative reference — RFC 1771: A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)
Informative reference — RFC 1930: Guidelines for creation, selection, and registration of an Autonomous System (AS)
Informative reference — RFC 3582: Goals for IPv6 Site-Multihoming Architectures
Informative reference — RFC 3221: Commentary on Inter-Domain Routing in the Internet
Informative reference — RFC 2260: Scalable Support for Multi-homed Multi-provider Connectivity

Incoming relationships (6 related RFCs)

Informatively referenced by — RFC 4984: Report from the IAB Workshop on Routing and Addressing
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5773: Analysis of Inter-Domain Routing Requirements and History
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7157: IPv6 Multihoming without Network Address Translation
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7488: Port Control Protocol (PCP) Server Selection
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6629: Considerations on the Application of the Level 3 Multihoming Shim Protocol for IPv6 (Shim6)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9284: Multihoming Deployment Considerations for DDoS Open Threat Signaling (DOTS)