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EVPN Port-Active Redundancy Mode
RFC 9786

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2026-05-20
(System) Changed metadata: changed keywords to '['Port-Active', 'EVPN', 'Multihoming']' from '[]'
2026-05-20
(System) Metadata update from RFC Editor
2026-05-20
(System) Changed author "J. Rabadan": changed name from "Jorge Rabadan" to "J. Rabadan", cleared country (was "USA")
2026-05-20
(System) Changed author "E. Leyton": changed name from "Eddie Leyton" to "E. Leyton", cleared country (was "USA")
2026-05-20
(System) Changed author "B. Wen": changed name from "Bin Wen" to "B. Wen", cleared country (was "USA")
2026-05-20
(System) Changed author "LA. Burdet": changed name from "Luc André Burdet" to "LA. Burdet", changed is_editor from "False" to "True", cleared country (was "Canada")
2026-05-20
(System) Changed author "P. Brissette": changed name from "Patrice Brissette" to "P. Brissette", cleared country (was "Canada")
2026-05-20
(System) Metadata update from RFC Editor
2025-06-27
(System)
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created document RFC 9786, created became rfc relationship between draft-ietf-bess-evpn-mh-pa and RFC 9786, set abstract to 'The …
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created document RFC 9786, created became rfc relationship between draft-ietf-bess-evpn-mh-pa and RFC 9786, set abstract to 'The Multi-Chassis Link Aggregation (MC-LAG) group technology enables establishing a logical link-aggregation connection with a redundant group of independent nodes.  The objective of MC-LAG is to enhance both network availability and bandwidth utilization through various modes of traffic load balancing.  RFC 7432 defines an EVPN-based MC-LAG with Single-Active and All-Active multihoming redundancy modes.  This document builds on the existing redundancy mechanisms supported by EVPN and introduces a new active/standby redundancy mode, called 'Port-Active'.', set pages to 12, set standardization level to Proposed Standard, added RFC published event at 2025-06-27)
2025-06-27
(System) RFC published