RFC 7606: Revised Error Handling for BGP UPDATE Messages

According to the base BGP specification, a BGP speaker that receives an UPDATE message containing a malformed attribute is required to reset the session over…

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Outgoing relationships (17 related RFCs)

Updates, Normative reference — RFC 4271: A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)
Updates, Normative reference — RFC 4760: Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4
Updates, Normative reference — RFC 4360: BGP Extended Communities Attribute
Updates, Normative reference — RFC 1997: BGP Communities Attribute
Updates, Normative reference — RFC 4456: BGP Route Reflection: An Alternative to Full Mesh Internal BGP (IBGP)
Updates, Normative reference — RFC 5701: IPv6 Address Specific BGP Extended Community Attribute
Updates, Normative reference — RFC 6368: Internal BGP as the Provider/Customer Edge Protocol for BGP/MPLS IP Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
Updates, Normative reference — RFC 5543: BGP Traffic Engineering Attribute
Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Normative reference — RFC 6793: BGP Support for Four-Octet Autonomous System (AS) Number Space
Normative reference — RFC 4724: Graceful Restart Mechanism for BGP
Informative reference — RFC 7432: BGP MPLS-Based Ethernet VPN
Informative reference — RFC 6514: BGP Encodings and Procedures for Multicast in MPLS/BGP IP VPNs
Informative reference — RFC 5116: An Interface and Algorithms for Authenticated Encryption
Informative reference — RFC 7117: Multicast in Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS)
Informative reference — RFC 7366: Encrypt-then-MAC for Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS)
Informative reference — RFC 5549: Advertising IPv4 Network Layer Reachability Information with an IPv6 Next Hop

Incoming relationships (25 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 7752: North-Bound Distribution of Link-State and Traffic Engineering (TE) Information Using BGP
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9012: The BGP Tunnel Encapsulation Attribute
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8205: BGPsec Protocol Specification
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8955: Dissemination of Flow Specification Rules
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9552: Distribution of Link-State and Traffic Engineering Information Using BGP
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8669: Segment Routing Prefix Segment Identifier Extensions for BGP
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9251: Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) Proxies for Ethernet VPN (EVPN)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9135: Integrated Routing and Bridging in Ethernet VPN (EVPN)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9252: BGP Overlay Services Based on Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9830: Advertising Segment Routing Policies in BGP
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7854: BGP Monitoring Protocol (BMP)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7902: Registry and Extensions for P-Multicast Service Interface Tunnel Attribute Flags
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8092: BGP Large Communities Attribute
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7999: BLACKHOLE Community
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9026: Multicast VPN Fast Upstream Failover
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9774: Deprecation of AS_SET and AS_CONFED_SET in BGP
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9832: BGP Classful Transport Planes
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9871: BGP Color-Aware Routing (CAR)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9136: IP Prefix Advertisement in Ethernet VPN (EVPN)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8097: BGP Prefix Origin Validation State Extended Community
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9625: EVPN Optimized Inter-Subnet Multicast (OISM) Forwarding
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8093: Deprecation of BGP Path Attribute Values 30, 31, 129, 241, 242, and 243
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8374: BGPsec Design Choices and Summary of Supporting Discussions
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9413: Maintaining Robust Protocols
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9793: BGP Extensions for Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER)