Standards and Protocols

General protocols

  • IEEE 802.1ad Q-in-Q
  • IEEE 802.1AX-2008 Link Aggregation
  • IEEE 802.1D MAC Bridges
  • IEEE 802.1p Priority
  • IEEE 802.1Q VLANs
  • IEEE 802.1s Multiple Spanning Trees
  • IEEE 802.1v VLAN classification by Protocol and Port
  • IEEE 802.1w Rapid Reconfiguration of Spanning Tree
  • IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)
  • IEEE 802.3af Power over Ethernet
  • IEEE 802.3x Flow Control
  • RFC 768 UDP
  • RFC 783 TFTP Protocol (revision 2)
  • RFC 792 ICMP
  • RFC 793 TCP
  • RFC 826 ARP
  • RFC 854 TELNET
  • RFC 868 Time Protocol
  • RFC 951 BOOTP
  • RFC 1058 RIPv1
  • RFC 1350 TFTP Protocol (revision 2)
  • RFC 1519 CIDR
  • RFC 1542 BOOTP Extensions
  • RFC 2030 Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP) v4
  • RFC 2131 DHCP
  • RFC 2453 RIPv2
  • RFC 2548 (MS-RAS-Vendor only)
  • RFC 3046 DHCP Relay Agent Information Option
  • RFC 3576 Ext to RADIUS (CoA only)
  • RFC 3768 VRRP
  • RFC 4675 RADIUS VLAN & Priority
  • UDLD (Uni-directional Link Detection)

IP multicast

  • RFC 3376 IGMPv3
  • RFC 3973 Draft 2 PIM Dense Mode
  • RFC 4601 Draft 10 PIM Sparse Mode

IPv6

  • RFC 1981 IPv6 Path MTU Discovery
  • RFC 2375 IPv6 Multicast Address Assignments
  • RFC 2460 IPv6 Specification
  • RFC 2464 Transmission of IPv6 over Ethernet Networks
  • RFC 2710 Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) for IPv6
  • RFC 2925 Definitions of Managed Objects for Remote Ping, Traceroute, and Lookup Operations (Ping only)
  • RFC 3019 MLDv1 MIB
  • RFC 3315 DHCPv6 (client only)
  • RFC 3484 Default Address Selection for IPv6
  • RFC 3587 IPv6 Global Unicast Address Format
  • RFC 3596 DNS Extension for IPv6
  • RFC 3810 MLDv2 (host joins only)
  • RFC 4022 MIB for TCP
  • RFC 4087 IP Tunnel MIB
  • RFC 4113 MIB for UDP
  • RFC 4213 Basic Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts and Routers
  • RFC 4251 SSHv6 Architecture
  • RFC 4252 SSHv6 Authentication
  • RFC 4253 SSHv6 Transport Layer
  • RFC 4254 SSHv6 Connection
  • RFC 4291 IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture
  • RFC 4293 MIB for IP
  • RFC 4294 IPv6 Node Requirements
  • RFC 4419 Key Exchange for SSH
  • RFC 4443 ICMPv6
  • RFC 4541 IGMP & MLD Snooping Switch
  • RFC 4861 IPv6 Neighbor Discovery
  • RFC 4862 IPv6 Stateless Address Auto-configuration
  • RFC 5095 Deprecation of Type 0 Routing Headers in IPv6
  • RFC 5340 OSPFv3 for IPv6
  • RFC 5453 Reserved IPv6 Interface Identifiers
  • RFC 5519 Multicast Group Membership Discovery
  • MIB (MLDv2 only)
  • RFC 5722 Handling of Overlapping IPv6 Fragments

MIBs

  • IEEE 802.1ap (MSTP and STP MIB's only)
  • RFC 1213 MIB II
  • RFC 1493 Bridge MIB
  • RFC 1724 RIPv2 MIB
  • RFC 1850 OSPFv2 MIB
  • RFC 2021 RMONv2 MIB
  • RFC 2096 IP Forwarding Table MIB
  • RFC 2613 SMON MIB
  • RFC 2618 RADIUS Client MIB
  • RFC 2620 RADIUS Accounting MIB
  • RFC 2665 Ethernet-Like-MIB
  • RFC 2668 802.3 MAU MIB
  • RFC 2674 802.1p and IEEE 802.1Q Bridge MIB
  • RFC 2737 Entity MIB (Version 2)
  • RFC 2787 VRRP MIB
  • RFC 2863 The Interfaces Group MIB
  • RFC 2925 Ping MIB
  • RFC 2933 IGMP MIB

Network management

  • IEEE 802.1AB Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)
  • RFC 2819 Four groups of RMON: 1 (statistics), 2 (history), 3 (alarm) and 9 (events)
  • RFC 3176 sFlow ANSI/TIA-1057 LLDP Media Endpoint Discovery (LLDP-MED)
  • SNMPv1/v2c/v3
  • XRMON

Device management

  • RFC 1591 DNS (client)
  • HTML and telnet / CLI management

Security

  • IEEE 802.1X Port Based Network Access Control
  • RFC 1492 TACACS+
  • RFC 2865 RADIUS (client only)
  • RFC 2866 RADIUS Accounting
  • RFC 3579 RADIUS Support For Extensible
  • Authentication Protocol (EAP)
  • Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
  • SSHv1/SSHv2 Secure Shell

QoS/Cos

  • RFC 2474 DiffServ Precedence
  • RFC 2597 DiffServ Assured Forwarding (AF)
  • RFC 2598 DiffServ Expedited Forwarding (EF)

OSPF

  • RFC 2328 OSPFv2
  • RFC 3101 OSPF NSSA
  • RFC 5340 OSPFv3 for IPv6

BGP

  • RFC 1997 BGP Communities Attribute
  • RFC 2918 Route Refresh Capability
  • RFC 4271 A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)
  • RFC 4456 BGP Route Reflection: An Alternative to Full Mesh Internal BGP (IBGP)
  • RFC 5492 Capabilities Advertisement with BGP-4