The following table and sections list the RFCs that the switch supports.
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 Request for comment  | 
 Description  | 
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 draft-grant-tacacs-02.txt  | 
 TACACS+ Protocol  | 
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 RFC 768  | 
 UDP Protocol  | 
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 RFC 783  | 
 Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP)  | 
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 RFC 791  | 
 Internet Protocol (IP)  | 
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 RFC 792  | 
 Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)  | 
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 RFC 793  | 
 Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)  | 
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                 RFC 815  | 
              
                 IP Datagram Reassembly Algorithm  | 
            
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                 RFC 826  | 
              
                 Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)  | 
            
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 RFC 854  | 
 Telnet protocol  | 
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 RFC 894  | 
 A standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams over Ethernet Networks  | 
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 RFC 896  | 
 Congestion control in IP/TCP internetworks  | 
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 RFC 906  | 
 Bootstrap loading using TFTP  | 
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 RFC 950  | 
 Internet Standard Subnetting Procedure  | 
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 RFC 951  | 
 BootP  | 
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 RFC 959, RFC 1350, and RFC 2428  | 
 FTP and TFTP client and server  | 
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 RFC 1027  | 
 Using ARP to implement transparent subnet gateways/Nortel Subnet based VLAN  | 
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 RFC 1058  | 
 RIPv1 Protocol  | 
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 RFC 1112  | 
 Host Extensions for IP Multicasting (IGMPv1)  | 
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 RFC 1122  | 
 Requirements for Internet Hosts  | 
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 RFC 1195  | 
 Use of OSI IS-IS for Routing in TCP/IP and Dual Environments  | 
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                 RFC 1042  | 
              
                 Encapsulating the Internet Protocol (IP) datagrams and Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) Note: 
                   
              Applicable for 802.3 networks only  | 
            
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 RFC 1253  | 
 OSPF MIB  | 
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 RFC 1256  | 
 ICMP Router Discovery  | 
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                 RFC 1258 Note: 
                   
              Exception: rlogin is only supported on VSP 8600 Series.  | 
              
                 IPv6 Rlogin server  | 
            
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 RFC 1305  | 
 Network Time Protocol v3 Specification, Implementation and Analysis  | 
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                                                   RFC 1323  | 
                                                  
                                                   TCP Timestamp (The switch is only compliant if the TCP timestamp is enabled.)  | 
                                                
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 RFC 1340  | 
 Assigned Numbers  | 
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 RFC 1519  | 
 Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR): an Address Assignment and Aggregation Strategy  | 
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 RFC 1541  | 
 Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol  | 
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 RFC 1542  | 
 Clarifications and Extensions for the Bootstrap Protocol  | 
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 RFC 1587  | 
 The OSPF NSSA Option  | 
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 RFC 1591  | 
 DNS Client  | 
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 RFC 1723  | 
 RIP v2 — Carrying Additional Information  | 
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 RFC 1812  | 
 Router requirements  | 
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 RFC 1866  | 
 Hypertext Markup Language version 2 (HTMLv2) protocol  | 
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 RFC 1981  | 
 Path MTU discovery  | 
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 RFC 2068  | 
 Hypertext Transfer Protocol  | 
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 RFC 2080  | 
 RIP  | 
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 RFC 2131  | 
 Dynamic Host Control Protocol (DHCP)  | 
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 RFC 2132  | 
 DHCP Options and BOOTP Vendor Extensions  | 
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 RFC 2138  | 
 RADIUS Authentication  | 
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 RFC 2139  | 
 RADIUS Accounting  | 
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 RFC 2178  | 
 OSPF MD5 cryptographic authentication / OSPFv2  | 
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 RFC 2233  | 
 The Interfaces Group MIB using SMIv2  | 
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 RFC 2236  | 
 IGMPv2 Snooping  | 
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 RFC 2358  | 
 Definitions of Managed Objects for the Ethernet-like Interface Types  | 
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 RFC 2284  | 
 PPP Extensible Authentication Protocol  | 
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 RFC 2328  | 
 OSPFv2  | 
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 RFC 2338  | 
 VRRP: Virtual Redundancy Router Protocol  | 
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 RFC 2362  | 
 PIM-SM  | 
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 RFC 2407  | 
 IP Security Domain Interpretation of Internet Security Association and Key Management Protocol (ISAKMP)  | 
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 RFC 2408  | 
 Internet Security Associations and Key Management Protocol (ISAKMP)  | 
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 RFC 2453  | 
 RIPv2 Protocol  | 
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 RFC 2460  | 
 IPv6 base stack  | 
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 RFC 2462  | 
 IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration  | 
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 RFC 2463  | 
 Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification  | 
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 RFC 2464  | 
 Transmission of IPv6 packets over Ethernet networks  | 
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 RFC 2474  | 
 Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS Field) in the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers  | 
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 RFC 2475  | 
 An Architecture for Differentiated Services  | 
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 RFC 2545  | 
 Use of BGP-4 multi-protocol extensions for IPv6 inter-domain routing  | 
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 RFC 2548  | 
 Microsoft vendor specific RADIUS attributes  | 
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 RFC 2579  | 
 Textual Conventions for SMI v2  | 
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 RFC 2580  | 
 Conformance Statements for SMI v2  | 
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 RFC 2616  | 
 Hypertext Transfer Protocol 1.1  | 
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 RFC 2710  | 
 Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) for IPv6  | 
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 RFC 2716  | 
 PPP EAP Transport Level Security (TLS) Authentication Protocol  | 
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 RFC 2737  | 
 Entity MIB (Version 2)  | 
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 RFC 2819  | 
 RMON  | 
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 RFC 2865  | 
 RADIUS  | 
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 RFC 2874  | 
 DNS Extensions for IPv6  | 
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 RFC 2918  | 
 Route Refresh Capability for BGP-4  | 
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 RFC 2992  | 
 Analysis of an Equal-Cost Multi-Path Algorithm  | 
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 RFC 3046  | 
 DHCP Option 82  | 
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 RFC 3162  | 
 IPv6 RADIUS client  | 
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 RFC 3246  | 
 An Expedited Forwarding PHB (Per-Hop Behavior)  | 
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 RFC 3315  | 
 IPv6 DHCP Relay  | 
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 RFC 3376  | 
 IGMPv3  | 
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 RFC 3411 and RFC 2418  | 
 SNMP over IPv6 networks  | 
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 RFC 3417  | 
 Transport Mappings for SNMP  | 
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 RFC 3484  | 
 Default Address Selection for IPv6  | 
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 RFC 3513  | 
 Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Addressing Architecture  | 
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 RFC 3569  | 
 An overview of Source-Specific Multicast (SSM)  | 
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 RFC 3579  | 
 RADIUS Support For Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP)  | 
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 RFC 3580  | 
 IEEE 802.1X Remote Authentication Dial In User Service  | 
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 RFC 3587  | 
 IPv6 Global Unicast Address Format  | 
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 RFC 3596  | 
 DNS Extensions for IPv6  | 
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 RFC 3621  | 
 Power Ethernet MIB  | 
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 RFC 3748  | 
 Extensible Authentication Protocol  | 
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 RFC 3810  | 
 Multicast Listener Discovery Version 2 (MLDv2) for IPv6  | 
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 RFC 3825  | 
 Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Option for Coordinate-based Location Configuration Information  | 
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 RFC 3879  | 
 Deprecating Site Local Addresses  | 
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 RFC 3986  | 
 Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI)  | 
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 RFC 4007  | 
 IPv6 Scoped Address Architecture  | 
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 RFC 4022  | 
 MIB for TCP  | 
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 RFC 4113  | 
 MIB for UDP  | 
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                 RFC 4133  | 
              
                 Entity MIB (version 3)  | 
            
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 RFC 4193  | 
 Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Address  | 
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 RFC 4213  | 
 IPv6 configured tunnel  | 
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 RFC 4250–RFC 4256  | 
 SSH server and client support  | 
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 RFC 4291  | 
 IPv6 Addressing Architecture  | 
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 RFC 4293  | 
 MIB for IP  | 
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 RFC 4301  | 
 Security Architecture for IPv6  | 
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 RFC 4302  | 
 IP Authentication Header (AH)  | 
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 RFC 4303  | 
 IP Encapsulated Security Payload (ESP)  | 
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 RFC 4305  | 
 Cryptographic algorithm implementation requirements for ESP and AH  | 
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 RFC 4308  | 
 Cryptographic suites for Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)  | 
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 RFC 4443  | 
 ICMP for IPv6  | 
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 RFC 4541  | 
 Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) Snooping  | 
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 RFC 4552  | 
 OSPFv3 Authentication and confidentiality for OSPFv3  | 
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 RFC 4601  | 
 Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (PIM-SM)  | 
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                 RFC 4604  | 
              
                 Internet Group Management Protocol Version 3 (IGMPv3) and Multicast Listener Discovery Protocol Version 2 (MLDv2) for Source-Specific Multicast  | 
            
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 RFC 4607  | 
 Source-Specific Multicast (SSM)  | 
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 RFC 4649  | 
 Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6) Relay Agent Remote-ID Option  | 
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 RFC 4675  | 
 Egress VLAN  | 
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                 RFC 4750  | 
              
                 OSPFv2 MIB  | 
            
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 RFC 4760  | 
 Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4  | 
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 RFC 4835  | 
 Cryptographic algorithm implementation for ESP and AH  | 
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 RFC 4861  | 
 IPv6 Neighbor discovery  | 
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 RFC 4862  | 
 IPv6 stateless address autoconfiguration  | 
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 RFC 4893  | 
 BGP Support for Four-octet AS Number Space  | 
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 RFC 5095  | 
 Deprecation of Type 0 Routing headers in IPv6  | 
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 RFC 5176  | 
 Dynamic Authorization Extensions to Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS)  | 
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 RFC 5187  | 
 OSPFv3 Graceful Restart (helper-mode only)  | 
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 RFC 5242  | 
 The Syslog Protocol  | 
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 RFC 5321  | 
 Simple Mail Transfer Protocol  | 
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 RFC 5340  | 
 OSPF for IPv6  | 
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                 RFC 5746  | 
              
                 Secure SSL Renegotiation  | 
            
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 RFC 5798  | 
 Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) Version 3 for IPv4 and IPv6  | 
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 RFC 5905  | 
 Network Time Protocol Version 4: Protocol and Algorithms Specification  | 
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 RFC 5997  | 
 Use of Status-Server Packets in the Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS) Protocol  | 
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 RFC 6105  | 
 IPv6 Router Advertisement Guard  | 
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 RFC 6329  | 
 IS-IS Extensions supporting Shortest Path Bridging  | 
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 RFC 7047  | 
 The Open vSwitch Database Management Protocol  | 
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 RFC 7348  | 
 Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN)  | 
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 RFC 7610  | 
 DHCPv6 Shield  |