RFC 5512: The BGP Encapsulation Subsequent Address Family Identifier (SAFI) and the BGP Tunnel Encapsulation Attribute

In certain situations, transporting a packet from one Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) speaker to another (the BGP next hop) requires that the packet be…

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Outgoing relationships (9 related RFCs)

Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Normative reference — RFC 4271: A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)
Normative reference — RFC 2784: Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)
Normative reference — RFC 4760: Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4
Normative reference — RFC 2003: IP Encapsulation within IP
Normative reference — RFC 4213: Basic Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts and Routers
Normative reference — RFC 3931: Layer Two Tunneling Protocol - Version 3 (L2TPv3)
Normative reference — RFC 4360: BGP Extended Communities Attribute
Normative reference — RFC 2890: Key and Sequence Number Extensions to GRE

Incoming relationships (9 related RFCs)

Obsoleted by, Informatively referenced by — RFC 9012: The BGP Tunnel Encapsulation Attribute
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8365: A Network Virtualization Overlay Solution Using Ethernet VPN (EVPN)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5565: Softwire Mesh Framework
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5640: Load-Balancing for Mesh Softwires
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5566: BGP IPsec Tunnel Encapsulation Attribute
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5747: 4over6 Transit Solution Using IP Encapsulation and MP-BGP Extensions
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7856: Softwire Mesh Management Information Base (MIB)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7439: Gap Analysis for Operating IPv6-Only MPLS Networks
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9013: OSPF Advertisement of Tunnel Encapsulations