Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) R. Enns, Ed.
Request for Comments: 6241 Juniper Networks
Obsoletes: 4741 M. Bjorklund, Ed.
Category: Standards Track Tail-f Systems
ISSN: 2070-1721 J. Schoenwaelder, Ed.
Jacobs University
A. Bierman, Ed.
Brocade
June 2011
Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF)
Abstract
The Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF) defined in this document
provides mechanisms to install, manipulate, and delete the
configuration of network devices. It uses an Extensible Markup
Language (XML)-based data encoding for the configuration data as well
as the protocol messages. The NETCONF protocol operations are
realized as remote procedure calls (RPCs). This document obsoletes
RFC 4741.
Status of This Memo
This is an Internet Standards Track document.
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(IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has
received public review and has been approved for publication by the
Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Further information on
Internet Standards is available in Section 2 of RFC 5741.
Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
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http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6241.
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Enns, et al. Standards Track [Page 2]RFC 6241 NETCONF Protocol June 2011Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
1.1. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1.2. Protocol Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
1.3. Capabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
1.4. Separation of Configuration and State Data . . . . . . . 10
2. Transport Protocol Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2.1. Connection-Oriented Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2.2. Authentication, Integrity, and Confidentiality . . . . . 12
2.3. Mandatory Transport Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3. XML Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3.1. Namespace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3.2. Document Type Declarations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
4. RPC Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
4.1. <rpc> Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
4.2. <rpc-reply> Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
4.3. <rpc-error> Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
4.4. <ok> Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
4.5. Pipelining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
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