Users Guide

Table Of Contents
BGP 1361
Dell EMC Networking BGP supports the following RFCs in whole or in part
as indicated:
RFC 1997 – BGP Communities Attribute
RFC 2385 – Protection of BGP Sessions via the TCP MD5 Signature
Option
RFC 2545 – Use of BGP-4 Multiprotocol Extensions for IPv6 Inter-
Domain Routing
RFC 2918 – Route Refresh Capability for BGP-4
RFC 4271 – A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)
RFC 4273 – Definitions of Managed Objects for BGP-4
RFC 4456 – BGP Route Reflection: An Alternative to Full Mesh Internal
BGP (IBGP)
RFC 4486 – Sub-codes for BGP Cease Notification Message
RFC 4724 – Graceful Restart Mechanism for BGP
RFC 4760 – Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4
RFC 5492 – Capabilities Advertisement with BGP-4
RFC 5668 – 4 Octet AS Specific BGP Extended Community
RFC 6793 – BGP Support for Four-Octet Autonomous System (AS)
Number Space
Dell EMC Networking BGP supports both IPv4 and IPv6 peering sessions and
supports both IPv4 and IPv6 routes (RFC 4760 and RFC 2545). IPv6 peering
sessions support IPv6 routes only, but IPv4 addresses may be embedded
within IPv6 routes.
TCP MD5 authentication is supported, however, RFC 5295 is not supported.
Dell EMC Networking BGP also supports a private MIB with information
regarding:
Internal BGP message queue status
Transmit and receive message counters
Decision process statistics
Per-peer message and prefix counters
Dell EMC Networking BGP supports configuration via the CLI only.