RFC 5340: OSPF for IPv6

This document describes the modifications to OSPF to support version 6 of the Internet Protocol (IPv6). The fundamental mechanisms of OSPF (flooding,…

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Outgoing relationships (16 related RFCs)

Obsoletes, Informative reference — RFC 2740: OSPF for IPv6
Normative reference — RFC 2460: Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
Normative reference — RFC 4291: IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture
Normative reference — RFC 4303: IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)
Normative reference — RFC 2474: Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS Field) in the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers
Normative reference — RFC 2863: The Interfaces Group MIB
Normative reference — RFC 4302: IP Authentication Header
Normative reference — RFC 4552: Authentication/Confidentiality for OSPFv3
Normative reference — RFC 3101: The OSPF Not-So-Stubby Area (NSSA) Option
Normative reference — RFC 1793: Extending OSPF to Support Demand Circuits
Normative reference — RFC 4576: Using a Link State Advertisement (LSA) Options Bit to Prevent Looping in BGP/MPLS IP Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
Informative reference — RFC 1191: Path MTU discovery
Informative reference — RFC 4594: Configuration Guidelines for DiffServ Service Classes
Informative reference — RFC 1584: Multicast Extensions to OSPF
Informative reference — RFC 4593: Generic Threats to Routing Protocols
Informative reference — RFC 2370: The OSPF Opaque LSA Option

Incoming relationships (68 related RFCs)

Showing 50 of 68 related RFCs.

Updated by, Normatively referenced by — RFC 8362: OSPFv3 Link State Advertisement (LSA) Extensibility
Updated by, Normatively referenced by — RFC 6845: OSPF Hybrid Broadcast and Point-to-Multipoint Interface Type
Updated by, Normatively referenced by — RFC 6860: Hiding Transit-Only Networks in OSPF
Updated by, Normatively referenced by — RFC 7503: OSPFv3 Autoconfiguration
Updated by, Normatively referenced by — RFC 9454: Update to OSPF Terminology
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7752: North-Bound Distribution of Link-State and Traffic Engineering (TE) Information Using BGP
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7166: Supporting Authentication Trailer for OSPFv3
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5838: Support of Address Families in OSPFv3
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6039: Issues with Existing Cryptographic Protection Methods for Routing Protocols
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9552: Distribution of Link-State and Traffic Engineering Information Using BGP
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5392: OSPF Extensions in Support of Inter-Autonomous System (AS) MPLS and GMPLS Traffic Engineering
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8666: OSPFv3 Extensions for Segment Routing
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5613: OSPF Link-Local Signaling
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6565: OSPFv3 as a Provider Edge to Customer Edge (PE-CE) Routing Protocol
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6506: Supporting Authentication Trailer for OSPFv3
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9085: Border Gateway Protocol - Link State (BGP-LS) Extensions for Segment Routing
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9513: OSPFv3 Extensions for Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6549: OSPFv2 Multi-Instance Extensions
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9129: YANG Data Model for the OSPF Protocol
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5643: Management Information Base for OSPFv3
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5786: Advertising a Router's Local Addresses in OSPF Traffic Engineering (TE) Extensions
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6412: Terminology for Benchmarking Link-State IGP Data-Plane Route Convergence
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5787: OSPFv2 Routing Protocols Extensions for Automatically Switched Optical Network (ASON) Routing
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6396: Multi-Threaded Routing Toolkit (MRT) Routing Information Export Format
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9492: OSPF Application-Specific Link Attributes
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9667: Dynamic Flooding on Dense Graphs
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9857: Advertisement of Segment Routing Policies Using BGP - Link State
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5330: A Link-Type sub-TLV to Convey the Number of Traffic Engineering Label Switched Paths Signalled with Zero Reserved Bandwidth across a Link
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5820: Extensions to OSPF to Support Mobile Ad Hoc Networking
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6413: Benchmarking Methodology for Link-State IGP Data-Plane Route Convergence
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6825: Traffic Engineering Database Management Information Base in Support of MPLS-TE/GMPLS
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8379: OSPF Graceful Link Shutdown
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8920: OSPF Application-Specific Link Attributes
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9084: OSPF Prefix Originator Extensions
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9502: IGP Flexible Algorithm in IP Networks
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9696: Routing in Fat Trees (RIFT) Applicability and Operational Considerations
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5514: IPv6 over Social Networks
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5523: OSPFv3-Based Layer 1 VPN Auto-Discovery
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7038: Use of OSPF-MDR in Single-Hop Broadcast Networks
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9214: OSPFv3 Code Point for MPLS LSP Ping
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9339: OSPF Reverse Metric
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9792: Prefix Flag Extension for OSPFv2 and OSPFv3
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9903: A YANG Data Model for OSPF Segment Routing over the MPLS Data Plane
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8754: IPv6 Segment Routing Header (SRH)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9256: Segment Routing Policy Architecture
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5883: Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) for Multihop Paths
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7490: Remote Loop-Free Alternate (LFA) Fast Reroute (FRR)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8900: IP Fragmentation Considered Fragile
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8929: IPv6 Backbone Router
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7812: An Architecture for IP/LDP Fast Reroute Using Maximally Redundant Trees (MRT-FRR)