Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) L. Blunk
Request for Comments: 6396 M. Karir
Category: Standards Track Merit Network
ISSN: 2070-1721 C. Labovitz
Deepfield Networks
October 2011
Multi-Threaded Routing Toolkit (MRT) Routing Information Export Format
Abstract
This document describes the MRT format for routing information
export. This format was developed in concert with the Multi-threaded
Routing Toolkit (MRT) from whence the format takes it name. The
format can be used to export routing protocol messages, state
changes, and routing information base contents.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.1. Specification of Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2. MRT Common Header . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3. Extended Timestamp MRT Header . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4. MRT Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.1. OSPFv2 Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.2. TABLE_DUMP Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4.3. TABLE_DUMP_V2 Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.3.1. PEER_INDEX_TABLE Subtype . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.3.2. AFI/SAFI-Specific RIB Subtypes . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
4.3.3. RIB_GENERIC Subtype . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
4.3.4. RIB Entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
4.4. BGP4MP Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
4.4.1. BGP4MP_STATE_CHANGE Subtype . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
4.4.2. BGP4MP_MESSAGE Subtype . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
4.4.3. BGP4MP_MESSAGE_AS4 Subtype . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
4.4.4. BGP4MP_STATE_CHANGE_AS4 Subtype . . . . . . . . . . . 15
4.4.5. BGP4MP_MESSAGE_LOCAL Subtype . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
4.4.6. BGP4MP_MESSAGE_AS4_LOCAL Subtype . . . . . . . . . . . 16
4.5. ISIS Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
4.6. OSPFv3 Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
5. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
5.1. Type Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
5.2. Subtype Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
5.3. Defined Type Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
5.4. Defined BGP, BGP4PLUS, and BGP4PLUS_01 Subtype Codes . . . 19
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