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Standards and Protocol Support
Standards Compliance
IEEE 802.1ab-REV/D3 Station and
Media Access Control Connectivity
Discovery
IEEE 802.1D Bridging
IEEE 802.1p/Q VLAN Tagging
IEEE 802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree
IEEE 802.1w Rapid Spanning Tree 
Protocol
IEEE 802.1X Port Based Network 
Access Control
IEEE 802.1ad Provider Bridges
IEEE 802.1ah Provider Backbone 
Bridges (Not Supported on 7210 
SAS-R6 and 7210 SAS-Mxp)
IEEE 802.1ag Service Layer OAM
IEEE 802.3ah Ethernet in the First 
Mile
IEEE 802.3 10BaseT
IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation
IEEE 802.3ae 10Gbps Ethernet
IEEE 802.3u 100BaseTX
IEEE 802.3z 1000BaseSX/LX
ITU-T Y.1731 OAM functions and 
mechanisms for Ethernet based 
networks
draft-ietf-disman-alarm-mib-04.txt
IANA-IFType-MIB
IEEE8023-LAG-MIB
ITU-T G.8032 Ethernet Ring 
Protection
Switching (version 2)
Protocol Support
BGP
RFC 1397 BGP Default Route 
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RFC 1772 Application of BGP in the 
Internet
RFC 1997 BGP Communities 
Attribute
RFC 2385 Protection of BGP 
Sessions via MD5
RFC 2439 BGP Route Flap 
Dampening
RFC 2547bis BGP/MPLS VPNs
draft-ietf-idr-rfc2858bis-09.txt.
RFC 2918 Route Refresh Capability 
for BGP-4
RFC 3107 Carrying Label 
Information in BGP-4
RFC 3392 Capabilities 
Advertisement with BGP-4
RFC 4271 BGP-4 (previously RFC 
1771)
RFC 4360 BGP Extended 
Communities Attribute
RFC 4364 BGP/MPLS IP Virtual 
Private Networks (VPNs) 
(previously RFC 2547bis BGP/
MPLS VPNs)
RFC 4760 Multi-protocol Extensions 
for BGP
RFC 4893 BGP Support for Four-
octet AS Number Space
RFC 5291 Outbound Route Filtering
RFC 5668 4-Octet AS Specific BGP 
Extended Community Capability 
for BGP-4
draft-ietf-idr-add-paths
CIRCUIT EMULATION (7210 
SAS-M Only)
RFC 4553 Structure-Agnostic Time 
Division Multiplexing (TDM) 
over Packet (SAToP)
RFC 5086 Structure-Aware Time
Division Multiplexed (TDM) Circuit
Emulation Service over Packet
Switched Network (CESoPSN)
RFC 5287 Control Protocol 
Extensions for the Setup of 
Time-Division Multiplexing 
(TDM) Pseudowires in MPLS 
Networks
DHCP
RFC 2131 Dynamic Host 
Configuration Protocol
RFC 3046 DHCP Relay Agent 
Information Option (Option 82)
DIFFERENTIATED SERVICES
RFC 2474 Definition of the DS Field 
the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers (Rev)
RFC 2597 Assured Forwarding PHB 
Group (rev3260)
RFC 2598 An Expedited Forwarding 
PHB
RFC 2697 A Single Rate Three Color 
Marker
RFC 2698 A Two Rate Three Color 
Marker
RFC 4115 A Differentiated Service 
Two-Rate, Three-Color Marker 
with Efficient Handling of in-
Profile Traffic
IPv6 (Not supported on 7210 SAS-
T and 7210 SAS-Mxp)
RFC 2460 Internet Protocol, Version 
6
(IPv6) Specification
RFC 2461 Neighbor Discovery for 
IPv6
NOTE:  The capabilities available when operating in access-uplink mode/L2 mode and 
network mode/MPLS mode are different. Correspondingly, not all the standards and protocols 
listed below are applicable to access-uplink mode and network mode.