Supported RFCs

The following table and sections list the RFCs that the switch supports.

Table 1. Supported request for comments

Request for comment

Description

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TACACS+ Protocol

RFC 768

UDP Protocol

RFC 783

Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP)

RFC 791

Internet Protocol (IP)

RFC 792

Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)

RFC 793

Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)

RFC 815

IP Datagram Reassembly Algorithm

RFC 826

Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)

RFC 854

Telnet protocol

RFC 894

A standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams over Ethernet Networks

RFC 896

Congestion control in IP/TCP internetworks

RFC 906

Bootstrap loading using TFTP

RFC 950

Internet Standard Subnetting Procedure

RFC 951

BootP

RFC 959, RFC 1350, and RFC 2428

FTP and TFTP client and server

RFC 1027

Using ARP to implement transparent subnet gateways/Nortel Subnet based VLAN

RFC 1058

RIPv1 Protocol

RFC 1112

Host Extensions for IP Multicasting (IGMPv1)

RFC 1122

Requirements for Internet Hosts

RFC 1195

Use of OSI IS-IS for Routing in TCP/IP and Dual Environments

RFC 1253

OSPF MIB

RFC 1256

ICMP Router Discovery

RFC 1258

Note:

Exception: rlogin is only supported on VSP 8600 Series.

IPv6 Rlogin server

RFC 1305

Network Time Protocol v3 Specification, Implementation and Analysis

RFC 1323

TCP Timestamp (The switch is only compliant if the TCP timestamp is enabled.)

RFC 1340

Assigned Numbers

RFC 1519

Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR): an Address Assignment and Aggregation Strategy

RFC 1541

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

RFC 1542

Clarifications and Extensions for the Bootstrap Protocol

RFC 1587

The OSPF NSSA Option

RFC 1591

DNS Client

RFC 1723

RIP v2 — Carrying Additional Information

RFC 1812

Router requirements

RFC 1866

HyperText Markup Language version 2 (HTMLv2) protocol

RFC 1981

Path MTU discovery

RFC 2068

Hypertext Transfer Protocol

RFC 2080

RIP

RFC 2131

Dynamic Host Control Protocol (DHCP)

RFC 2132

DHCP Options and BOOTP Vendor Extensions

RFC 2138

RADIUS Authentication

RFC 2139

RADIUS Accounting

RFC 2178

OSPF MD5 cryptographic authentication / OSPFv2

RFC 2233

The Interfaces Group MIB using SMIv2

RFC 2236

IGMPv2 Snooping

RFC 2358

Definitions of Managed Objects for the Ethernet-like Interface Types

RFC 2284

PPP Extensible Authentication Protocol

RFC 2328

OSPFv2

RFC 2338

VRRP: Virtual Redundancy Router Protocol

RFC 2362

PIM-SM

RFC 2407

IP Security Domain Interpretation of Internet Security Association and Key Management Protocol (ISAKMP)

RFC 2408

Internet Security Associations and Key Management Protocol (ISAKMP)

RFC 2453

RIPv2 Protocol

RFC 2460

IPv6 base stack

RFC 2462

IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration

RFC 2463

Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification

RFC 2464

Transmission of IPv6 packets over Ethernet networks

RFC 2474

Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS Field) in the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers

RFC 2475

An Architecture for Differentiated Services

RFC 2545

Use of BGP-4 multi-protocol extensions for IPv6 inter-domain routing

RFC 2548

Microsoft vendor specific RADIUS attributes

RFC 2579

Textual Conventions for SMI v2

RFC 2580

Conformance Statements for SMI v2

RFC 2616

Hypertext Transfer Protocol 1.1

RFC 2710

Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) for IPv6

RFC 2716

PPP EAP Transport Level Security (TLS) Authentication Protocol

RFC 2737

Entity MIB (Version 2)

RFC 2819

RMON

RFC 2865

RADIUS

RFC 2874

DNS Extensions for IPv6

RFC 2918

Route Refresh Capability for BGP-4

RFC 2992

Analysis of an Equal-Cost Multi-Path Algorithm

RFC 3046

DHCP Option 82

RFC 3162

IPv6 RADIUS client

RFC 3246

An Expedited Forwarding PHB (Per-Hop Behavior)

RFC 3315

IPv6 DHCP Relay

RFC 3376

IGMPv3

RFC 3411 and RFC 2418

SNMP over IPv6 networks

RFC 3417

Transport Mappings for SNMP

RFC 3484

Default Address Selection for IPv6

RFC 3513

Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Addressing Architecture

RFC 3569

An overview of Source-Specific Multicast (SSM)

RFC 3579

RADIUS Support For Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP)

RFC 3580

IEEE 802.1X Remote Authentication Dial In User Service

RFC 3587

IPv6 Global Unicast Address Format

RFC 3596

DNS Extensions for IPv6

RFC 3621

Power Ethernet MIB

RFC 3748

Extensible Authentication Protocol

RFC 3810

Multicast Listener Discovery Version 2 (MLDv2) for IPv6

RFC 3825

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Option for Coordinate-based Location Configuration Information

RFC 3879

Deprecating Site Local Addresses

RFC 3986

Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI)

RFC 4007

IPv6 Scoped Address Architecture

RFC 4022

MIB for TCP

RFC 4113

MIB for UDP

RFC 4193

Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Address

RFC 4213

IPv6 configured tunnel

RFC 4250–RFC 4256

SSH server and client support

RFC 4291

IPv6 Addressing Architecture

RFC 4293

MIB for IP

RFC 4301

Security Architecture for IPv6

RFC 4302

IP Authentication Header (AH)

RFC 4303

IP Encapsulated Security Payload (ESP)

RFC 4305

Cryptographic algorithm implementation requirements for ESP and AH

RFC 4308

Cryptographic suites for Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)

RFC 4443

ICMP for IPv6

RFC 4541

 Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) Snooping

RFC 4552

OSPFv3 Authentication and confidentiality for OSPFv3

RFC 4601

Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (PIM-SM)

RFC 4607

Source-Specific Multicast (SSM)

RFC 4649

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6) Relay Agent Remote-ID Option

RFC 4675

Egress VLAN

RFC 4760

Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4

RFC 4835

Cryptographic algorithm implementation for ESP and AH

RFC 4861

IPv6 Neighbor discovery

RFC 4862

IPv6 stateless address autoconfiguration

RFC 4893

BGP Support for Four-octet AS Number Space

RFC 5095

Deprecation of Type 0 Routing headers in IPv6

RFC 5176

Dynamic Authorization Extensions to Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS)

RFC 5187

OSPFv3 Graceful Restart (helper-mode only)

RFC 5242

The Syslog Protocol

RFC 5321

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

RFC 5340

OSPF for IPv6

RFC 5798

Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) Version 3 for IPv4 and IPv6

RFC 5905

Network Time Protocol Version 4: Protocol and Algorithms Specification

RFC 5997

Use of Status-Server Packets in the Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS) Protocol

RFC 6105

IPv6 Router Advertisement Guard

RFC 6329

IS-IS Extensions supporting Shortest Path Bridging

RFC 7047

The Open vSwitch Database Management Protocol

RFC 7348

Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN)

RFC 7610

DHCPv6 Shield