RFC 7884 · PROPOSED STANDARD · 2016

OSPF Extensions to Advertise Seamless Bidirectional Forwarding Detection Target Discriminators

Overview

RFC 7884, “OSPF Extensions to Advertise Seamless Bidirectional Forwarding Detection Target Discriminators”, is a Proposed Standard document published in July 2016 by C. Pignataro, M. Bhatia, S. Aldrin, T. Ranganath. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

This document defines a new OSPF Router Information (RI) TLV that allows OSPF routers to flood the Seamless Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (S-BFD) Discriminator values associated with a target network identifier. This mechanism is applicable to both OSPFv2 and OSPFv3.

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An entry-level standards-track specification: stable, peer-reviewed and a solid basis for implementation, though it may still evolve before becoming an Internet Standard.

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