RFC 6987: OSPF Stub Router Advertisement
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This document describes a backward-compatible technique that may be used by OSPF (Open Shortest Path First) implementations to advertise a router's unavailability to forward transit traffic or to lower the preference level for the paths through such a router. This document obsoletes RFC 3137.
Document record
- Document ID
- RFC6987
- Published
- September 2013
- Authors
- A. Retana; L. Nguyen; A. Zinin; R. White; D. McPherson
- Status
- INFORMATIONAL
- Stream
- IETF
- Area
- rtg
- Pages
- 7
- Also known as
- —
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