The following table and sections list the RFCs that the switch supports.
| Request for comment | Description | 
|---|---|
| draft-grant-tacacs-02.txt | 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 1042 | Encapsulating the Internet Protocol (IP) datagrams and Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) Note: 
                   Applicable for 802.3 networks only | 
| 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 4133 | Entity MIB (version 3) | 
| 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 4604 | Internet Group Management Protocol Version 3 (IGMPv3) and Multicast Listener Discovery Protocol Version 2 (MLDv2) for Source-Specific Multicast | 
| 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 4750 | OSPFv2 MIB | 
| 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 5746 | Secure SSL Renegotiation | 
| 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 |