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Graceful Restart Mechanism for BGP
RFC 4724

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2026-05-20
(System) Changed metadata: changed keywords to '['border gateway protocol', 'end-of-rib', 'bgp restart']' from '[]'
2026-05-20
(System) Metadata update from RFC Editor
2026-05-20
(System) Changed author "Y. Rekhter": changed name from "Yakov Rekhter" to "Y. Rekhter", changed order from "0" to "5"
2026-05-20
(System) Changed author "J. Scudder": changed name from "John Scudder" to "J. Scudder", changed order from "1" to "4"
2026-05-20
(System) Changed author "R. Fernando": changed name from "Rex Fernando" to "R. Fernando", changed order from "4" to "3"
2026-05-20
(System) Changed author "E. Chen": changed name from "Enke Chen" to "E. Chen", changed order from "3" to "2"
2026-05-20
(System) Changed author "S. Sangli": changed name from "Srihari Sangli" to "S. Sangli", changed order from "2" to "1"
2026-05-20
(System) Metadata update from RFC Editor
2024-10-10
(System) Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created updates relation between RFC 4724 and RFC 4271, added Verified Errata tag)
2018-12-20
(System)
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (changed abstract to 'This document describes a mechanism for BGP that would help minimize the negative effects on routing …
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (changed abstract to 'This document describes a mechanism for BGP that would help minimize the negative effects on routing caused by BGP restart. An End-of-RIB marker is specified and can be used to convey routing convergence information. A new BGP capability, termed "Graceful Restart Capability", is defined that would allow a BGP speaker to express its ability to preserve forwarding state during BGP restart. Finally, procedures are outlined for temporarily retaining routing information across a TCP session termination/re-establishment.

The mechanisms described in this document are applicable to all routers, both those with the ability to preserve forwarding state during BGP restart and those without (although the latter need to implement only a subset of the mechanisms described in this document). [STANDARDS-TRACK]')
2015-10-14
(System) Notify list changed from idr-chairs@ietf.org to (None)
2007-02-06
Amy Vezza State Changes to RFC Published from RFC Ed Queue by Amy Vezza
2007-02-06
Amy Vezza [Note]: 'RFC 4724' added by Amy Vezza
2007-01-16
(System) RFC published