RFC 1656: BGP-4 Protocol Document Roadmap and Implementation Experience
This RFC has been replaced. Do not implement against it for new work — it was formally obsoleted by RFC 1773.
Current version: RFC 1773 — Experience with the BGP-4 protocol
In plain English — editorial summary, not part of the RFC
Border Gateway Protocol v4 (BGP-4) [1] is an inter-Autonomous System routing protocol. It is built on experience gained with BGP as defined in RFC-1267 [2] and BGP usage in the connected Internet as described in RFC-1268 [3]. This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.
Document record
- Document ID
- RFC1656
- Published
- July 1994
- Authors
- P. Traina
- Status
- INFORMATIONAL
- Stream
- IETF
- Area
- rtg
- Pages
- 4
- Also known as
- —
- Obsoleted by:
- RFC 1773
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Related documents
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- RFC 1745BGP4/IDRP for IP---OSPF InteractionCurrent
December 1994
- RFC 1863A BGP/IDRP Route Server alternative to a full mesh routingObsoleted
October 1995
- RFC 1930Guidelines for creation, selection, and registration of an Autonomous System (AS)Updated
March 1996
- RFC 4223Reclassification of RFC 1863 to HistoricCurrent
October 2005
- RFC 1774BGP-4 Protocol AnalysisCurrent
March 1995
- RFC 1364BGP OSPF InteractionObsoleted
September 1992
- RFC 1965Autonomous System Confederations for BGPObsoleted
June 1996
- RFC 1966BGP Route Reflection An alternative to full mesh IBGPObsoleted
June 1996
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