RFC 4724: Graceful Restart Mechanism for BGP

This document describes a mechanism for BGP that would help minimize the negative effects on routing caused by BGP restart. An End-of-RIB marker is specified…

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Outgoing relationships (4 related RFCs)

Updates, Normative reference — RFC 4271: A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)
Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Normative reference — RFC 2385: Protection of BGP Sessions via the TCP MD5 Signature Option
Normative reference — RFC 3392: Capabilities Advertisement with BGP-4

Incoming relationships (13 related RFCs)

Updated by — RFC 8538: Notification Message Support for BGP Graceful Restart
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5925: The TCP Authentication Option
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7606: Revised Error Handling for BGP UPDATE Messages
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8205: BGPsec Protocol Specification
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4781: Graceful Restart Mechanism for BGP with MPLS
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7854: BGP Monitoring Protocol (BMP)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7313: Enhanced Route Refresh Capability for BGP-4
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9494: Long-Lived Graceful Restart for BGP
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9972: Advanced BGP Monitoring Protocol (BMP) Statistics Types
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5773: Analysis of Inter-Domain Routing Requirements and History
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6198: Requirements for the Graceful Shutdown of BGP Sessions
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7747: Basic BGP Convergence Benchmarking Methodology for Data-Plane Convergence
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8374: BGPsec Design Choices and Summary of Supporting Discussions