RFC 6424: Mechanism for Performing Label Switched Path Ping (LSP Ping) over MPLS Tunnels

This document describes methods for performing LSP ping (specified in RFC 4379) traceroute over MPLS tunnels and for traceroute of stitched MPLS Label…

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Outgoing relationships (8 related RFCs)

Updates, Normative reference — RFC 4379: Detecting Multi-Protocol Label Switched (MPLS) Data Plane Failures
Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Normative reference — RFC 3692: Assigning Experimental and Testing Numbers Considered Useful
Informative reference — RFC 5462: Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Label Stack Entry: "EXP" Field Renamed to "Traffic Class" Field
Informative reference — RFC 5331: MPLS Upstream Label Assignment and Context-Specific Label Space
Informative reference — RFC 3443: Time To Live (TTL) Processing in Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Networks
Informative reference — RFC 4461: Signaling Requirements for Point-to-Multipoint Traffic-Engineered MPLS Label Switched Paths (LSPs)
Informative reference — RFC 5150: Label Switched Path Stitching with Generalized Multiprotocol Label Switching Traffic Engineering (GMPLS TE)

Incoming relationships (8 related RFCs)

Updated by — RFC 7537: IANA Registries for LSP Ping Code Points
Obsoleted by, Normatively referenced by — RFC 8029: Detecting Multiprotocol Label Switched (MPLS) Data-Plane Failures
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6425: Detecting Data-Plane Failures in Point-to-Multipoint MPLS - Extensions to LSP Ping
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6426: MPLS On-Demand Connectivity Verification and Route Tracing
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7555: Proxy MPLS Echo Request
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8012: Label Switched Path (LSP) and Pseudowire (PW) Ping/Trace over MPLS Networks Using Entropy Labels (ELs)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7297: IP Connectivity Provisioning Profile (CPP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7325: MPLS Forwarding Compliance and Performance Requirements