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BGP Next-Hop dependant capabilities
draft-decraene-idr-next-hop-capability-03

Document Type Replaced Internet-Draft (individual)
Expired & archived
Authors Bruno Decraene , Kireeti Kompella , Wim Henderickx
Last updated 2017-01-26
Replaced by draft-ietf-idr-next-hop-capability
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Abstract

RFC 5492 defines capabilities advertisement for the BGP peer. In addition, it is useful to be able to advertise BGP Next-Hop dependant capabilities, in particular for forwarding plane features. RFC 5492 is not applicable because the BGP peer may be different from the BGP Next-Hop, in particular when BGP Route Reflection is used. This document defines a mechanism to advertise such BGP Next Hop dependant Capabilities. This document defines a new BGP non-transitive attribute to carry Next-Hop Capabilities. This attribute is deleted or possibly modified when the BGP Next Hop is changed. This document also defines a Next-Hop capability to advertise the ability to handle the MPLS Entropy Label defined in RFC 6790. It updates RFC 6790 with regard to this BGP signaling.

Authors

Bruno Decraene
Kireeti Kompella
Wim Henderickx

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