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Standards and Protocol Support
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Ethernet Standards
IEEE 1588 Precision Clock 
Synchronization Protocol 
IEEE 802.1AB Station and Media Access 
Control Connectivity Discovery
IEEE 802.1ad Provider Bridges
IEEE 802.1ag Connectivity Fault 
Management
IEEE 802.1ah Provider Backbone 
Bridges
IEEE 802.1ak Multiple Registration 
Protocol
IEEE 802.1aq Shortest Path Bridging
IEEE 802.1ax Link Aggregation
IEEE 802.1D MAC Bridges
IEEE 802.1p Traffic Class Expediting
IEEE 802.1Q Virtual LANs
IEEE 802.1s Multiple Spanning Trees
IEEE 802.1w Rapid Reconfiguration of 
Spanning Tree
IEEE 802.1X Port Based Network 
Access Control
IEEE 802.3ab 1000BASE-T
IEEE 802.3ac VLAN Tag
IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation
IEEE 802.3ae 10 Gb/s Ethernet
IEEE 802.3ah Ethernet in the First Mile
IEEE 802.3ba 40 Gb/s and 100 Gb/s 
Ethernet
IEEE 802.3i Ethernet
IEEE 802.3u Fast Ethernet
IEEE 802.3x Ethernet Flow Control
IEEE 802.3z Gigabit Ethernet
ITU-T G.8031 Ethernet Linear Protection 
Switching
ITU-T G.8032 Ethernet Ring Protection 
Switching
ITU-T Y.1731 OAM functions and 
mechanisms for Ethernet based 
networks
OSPF
RFC 1586 Guidelines for Running OSPF 
Over Frame Relay Networks
RFC 1765 OSPF Database Overflow
RFC 2328 OSPF Version 2
RFC 3101 The OSPF Not-So-Stubby 
Area (NSSA) Option 
RFC 3509 Alternative Implementations 
of OSPF Area Border Routers
RFC 3623 Graceful OSPF Restart 
(Helper Mode)
RFC 3630 Traffic Engineering (TE) 
Extensions to OSPF Version 2
RFC 4203 OSPF Extensions in Support 
of Generalized Multi-Protocol Label 
Switching (GMPLS)
RFC 4222 Prioritized Treatment of 
Specific OSPF Version 2 Packets 
and Congestion Avoidance
RFC 4576 Using a Link State 
Advertisement (LSA) Options Bit to 
Prevent Looping in BGP/MPLS IP 
Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) 
RFC 4970 Extensions to OSPF for 
Advertising Optional Router 
Capabilities
RFC 5185 OSPF Multi-Area Adjacency
RFC 5243 OSPF Database Exchange 
Summary List Optimization
RFC 5250 The OSPF Opaque LSA 
Option 
RFC 5709 OSPFv2 HMAC-SHA 
Cryptographic Authentication
RFC 6987 OSPF Stub Router 
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BGP
RFC 1397 BGP Default Route 
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RFC 1772 Application of BGP in the 
Internet
RFC 1965 Confederations for BGP 
RFC 1997 BGP Communities Attribute
RFC 2385 Protection of BGP Sessions 
via MD5
RFC 2439 BGP Route Flap Dampening
RFC 2858 Multiprotocol Extensions for 
BGP-4
RFC 2918 Route Refresh Capability for 
BGP-4
RFC 3107 Carrying Label Information in 
BGP-4
RFC 3392 Capabilities Advertisement 
with BGP4
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 4456 BGP Route Reflection: 
Alternative to Full-mesh IBGP
RFC 4486 Subcodes for BGP Cease 
Notification Message
RFC 4577 OSPF as the Provider/
Customer Edge Protocol for BGP/
MPLS IP Virtual Private Networks 
(VPNs)
RFC 4659 BGP-MPLS IP Virtual Private 
Network (VPN) Extension for IPv6 
VPN
RFC 4684 Constrained Route 
Distribution for Border Gateway 
Protocol/MultiProtocol Label 
Switching (BGP/MPLS) Internet 
Protocol (IP) Virtual Private 
Networks (VPNs)
RFC 4724 Graceful Restart Mechanism 
for BGP – GR helper 
RFC 4760 Multi-protocol Extensions for 
BGP 
RFC 4798 Connecting IPv6 Islands over 
IPv4 MPLS Using IPv6 Provider 
Edge Routers (6PE)
RFC 4893 BGP Support for Four-octet 
AS Number Space
RFC 5004 Avoid BGP Best Path 
Transitions from One External to 
Another
RFC 5065 Confederations for BGP 
(obsoletes 3065)
RFC 5291 Outbound Route Filtering 
Capability for BGP-4