RFC 7454: BGP Operations and Security

The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the protocol almost exclusively used in the Internet to exchange routing information between network domains. Due to this…

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Outgoing relationships (17 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 5925: The TCP Authentication Option
Normative reference — RFC 5082: The Generalized TTL Security Mechanism (GTSM)
Normative reference — RFC 6811: BGP Prefix Origin Validation
Normative reference — RFC 7196: Making Route Flap Damping Usable
Informative reference — RFC 2827: Network Ingress Filtering: Defeating Denial of Service Attacks which employ IP Source Address Spoofing
Informative reference — RFC 6480: An Infrastructure to Support Secure Internet Routing
Informative reference — RFC 2385: Protection of BGP Sessions via the TCP MD5 Signature Option
Informative reference — RFC 3704: Ingress Filtering for Multihomed Networks
Informative reference — RFC 6952: Analysis of BGP, LDP, PCEP, and MSDP Issues According to the Keying and Authentication for Routing Protocols (KARP) Design Guide
Informative reference — RFC 6192: Protecting the Router Control Plane
Informative reference — RFC 4012: Routing Policy Specification Language next generation (RPSLng)
Informative reference — RFC 7115: Origin Validation Operation Based on the Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI)
Informative reference — RFC 7132: Threat Model for BGP Path Security
Informative reference — RFC 6666: A Discard Prefix for IPv6
Informative reference — RFC 7353: Security Requirements for BGP Path Validation

Incoming relationships (7 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 8195: Use of BGP Large Communities
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9099: Operational Security Considerations for IPv6 Networks
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7947: Internet Exchange BGP Route Server
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8092: BGP Large Communities Attribute
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8704: Enhanced Feasible-Path Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7999: BLACKHOLE Community
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8097: BGP Prefix Origin Validation State Extended Community