RFC 4724

Graceful Restart Mechanism for BGP, January 2007

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Status:
PROPOSED STANDARD
Updated by:
RFC 8538
Authors:
S. Sangli
E. Chen
R. Fernando
J. Scudder
Y. Rekhter
Stream:
IETF
Source:
idr (rtg)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC4724

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Abstract

This document describes a mechanism for BGP that would help minimize the negative effects on routing caused by BGP restart. An End-of-RIB marker is specified and can be used to convey routing convergence information. A new BGP capability, termed "Graceful Restart Capability", is defined that would allow a BGP speaker to express its ability to preserve forwarding state during BGP restart. Finally, procedures are outlined for temporarily retaining routing information across a TCP session termination/re-establishment.

The mechanisms described in this document are applicable to all routers, both those with the ability to preserve forwarding state during BGP restart and those without (although the latter need to implement only a subset of the mechanisms described in this document). [STANDARDS-TRACK]


For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.




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