RFC 8950: Advertising IPv4 Network Layer Reachability Information (NLRI) with an IPv6 Next Hop

Multiprotocol BGP (MP-BGP) specifies that the set of usable next-hop address families is determined by the Address Family Identifier (AFI) and the Subsequent…

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Outgoing relationships (18 related RFCs)

Obsoletes, Informative reference — RFC 5549: Advertising IPv4 Network Layer Reachability Information with an IPv6 Next Hop
Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Normative reference — RFC 8174: Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC 2119 Key Words
Normative reference — RFC 4291: IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture
Normative reference — RFC 4364: BGP/MPLS IP Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
Normative reference — RFC 4760: Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4
Normative reference — RFC 8277: Using BGP to Bind MPLS Labels to Address Prefixes
Normative reference — RFC 2545: Use of BGP-4 Multiprotocol Extensions for IPv6 Inter-Domain Routing
Normative reference — RFC 5492: Capabilities Advertisement with BGP-4
Informative reference — RFC 6513: Multicast in MPLS/BGP IP VPNs
Informative reference — RFC 6514: BGP Encodings and Procedures for Multicast in MPLS/BGP IP VPNs
Informative reference — RFC 4272: BGP Security Vulnerabilities Analysis
Informative reference — RFC 4684: Constrained Route Distribution for Border Gateway Protocol/MultiProtocol Label Switching (BGP/MPLS) Internet Protocol (IP) Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
Informative reference — RFC 4659: BGP-MPLS IP Virtual Private Network (VPN) Extension for IPv6 VPN
Informative reference — RFC 6074: Provisioning, Auto-Discovery, and Signaling in Layer 2 Virtual Private Networks (L2VPNs)
Informative reference — RFC 4798: Connecting IPv6 Islands over IPv4 MPLS Using IPv6 Provider Edge Routers (6PE)
Informative reference — RFC 4925: Softwire Problem Statement
Informative reference — RFC 5565: Softwire Mesh Framework

Incoming relationships (3 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 9252: BGP Overlay Services Based on Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9386: IPv6 Deployment Status
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9696: Routing in Fat Trees (RIFT) Applicability and Operational Considerations