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- RFC 4271 Border Gateway Protocol 4
- RFC 4456 BGP Route Reflection
- RFC 5065 Autonomous System Confederations for BGP
- RFC 1997 BGP Communities Attribute
- RFC 8092 BGP Large Communities
- RFC 4360, 5668 BGP Extended Communities
- RFC 2385 TCP MD5 Authentication for BGPv4
- RFC 5492 Capabilities Advertisement with BGP-4
- RFC 2918 Route Refresh Capability
- RFC 4760 Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4
- RFC 2545 Use of BGP-4 Multiprotocol Extensions for IPv6 Inter-Domain Routing
- RFC 4893 BGP Support for Four-octet AS Number Space
RFC 4364 BGP/MPLS IP Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
- RFC 4761 Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) Using BGP for Auto-Discovery and Signalling
- RFC 6286 - AS-wide Unique BGP Identifier for BGP-4
- RFC 4273 - SNMP peer table monitoring (OID 1.3.6.1.2.1.15.3.1)
- RFC 6793 - 4-byte ASN support and Aggregator attribute.
BGP Terminology
- AS - Autonomous System
- ASN - Autonomous System Number
- NLRI - Network Layer Reachability Information is what is being exchanged between BGP peers and represents how to reach the prefixes.
- IGP - Interior Gateway Protocol
- EGP - Exterior Gateway protocol
- RR - Route reflector is the router in the BGP network that reflects advertisements to all the neighbors, avoiding the requirement for full BGP mesh.
- Route server - is the BGP router that does not participate in traffic forwarding. Routes are typically not even installed in the FIB.
- loopback address - a /32 address configured on a dummy bridge interface, that can act as a loopback.
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