Appendix: FortiSwitch-supported RFCs
FortiSwitchOS supports the following RFCs:
BFD
- RFC 5880: Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)
- RFC 5881: Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) for IPv4 and IPv6 (Single Hop)
- RFC 5882: Generic Application of Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)
BGP
- RFC 1771: A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)
- RFC 1965: Autonomous System Confederations for BGP
- RFC 1997: BGP Communities Attribute
- RFC 2545: Use of BGP-4 Multiprotocol Extensions for IPv6 Inter-Domain Routing
- RFC 2796: BGP Route Reflection - An Alternative to Full Mesh IBGP
- RFC 2842: Capabilities Advertisement with BGP-4
- RFC 2858: Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4
- RFC 4271: A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)
- RFC 6286: Autonomous-System-Wide Unique BGP Identifier for BGP-4
- RFC 6608: Subcodes for BGP Finite State Machine Error
- RFC 6793: BGP Support for Four-Octet Autonomous System (AS) Number Space
- RFC 7606: Revised Error Handling for BGP UPDATE Messages
- RFC 7607: Codification of AS 0 Processing
- RFC 7705: Autonomous System Migration Mechanisms and Their Effects on the BGP AS_PATH Attribute
- RFC 8212: Default External BGP (EBGP) Route Propagation Behavior without Policies
- RFC 8654: Extended Message Support for BGP
DHCP
- RFC 2131: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
- RFC 3046: DHCP Relay Agent Information Option
- RFC 7513: Source Address Validation Improvement (SAVI) Solution for DHCP
IP/IPv4
- RFC 3168: The Addition of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IP
- RFC 5227: IPv4 Address Conflict Detection
- RFC 5517: Cisco Systems' Private VLANs: Scalable Security in a Multi-Client Environment
- RFC 7039: Source Address Validation Improvement (SAVI) Framework
IP multicast
- RFC 2710: Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) for IPv6 (MLDv1)
- RFC 4541: Considerations for Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) Snooping Switches
- RFC 4605: Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP)/Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD)-Based Multicast Forwarding (“IGMP/MLD Proxying”)
- RFC 4607: Source-Specific Multicast for IP
IPv6
- RFC 2464: Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Ethernet Networks: Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Ethernet Networks
- RFC 2474: Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS Field) in the and IPv6 Headers (DSCP)
- RFC 2893: Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts and Routers
- RFC 4213: Basic Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts and Router
- RFC 4291: IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture
- RFC 4443: Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
- RFC 4861: Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6 (IPv6)
- RFC 4862: IPv6 Stateless Address Auto configuration
- RFC 5095: Deprecation of Type 0 Routing Headers in IPv6
- RFC 6724: Default Address Selection for Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
- RFC 7113: Implementation Advice for IPv6 Router Advertisement Guard (RA-Guard)
- RFC 8200: Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
- RFC 8201: Path MTU Discovery for IP version 6
IS-IS
- RFC 1195: Use of OSI IS-IS for Routing in TCP/IP and Dual Environments
- RFC 5308: Routing IPv6 with IS-IS
MIB
- RFC 1213: Management Information Base for Network Management of TCP/IP-based internets: MIB-II
- RFC 1354: IP Forwarding Table MIB
- RFC 1493: Definitions of Managed Objects for Bridges
- RFC 1573: Evolution of the Interfaces Group of MIB-II
- RFC 1643: Definitions of Managed Objects for the Ethernet-like Interface Types
- RFC 1724: RIP Version 2 MIB Extension
- RFC 1850: OSPF Version 2 Management Information Base
- RFC 2233: The Interfaces Group MIB using SMIv2
- RFC 2618: RADIUS Authentication Client MIB
- RFC 2620: RADIUS Accounting Client MIB
- RFC 2674: Definitions of Managed Objects for Bridges with Traffic Classes, Multicast Filtering and Virtual LAN Extensions
- RFC 2787: Definitions of Managed Objects for the Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol
- RFC 2819: Remote Network Monitoring Management Information Base
- RFC 2932: IPv4 Multicast Routing MIB
- RFC 2934: Protocol Independent Multicast MIB for IPv4
- RFC 3289: Management Information Base for the Differentiated Services Architecture
- RFC 3433: Entity Sensor Management Information Base
- RFC 3621: Power Ethernet MIB
- RFC 6933: Entity MIB (Version 4)
OSPF
- RFC 1583: OSPF Version 2
- RFC 1765: OSPF Database Overflow
- RFC 2328: OSPF Version 2
- RFC 2370: The OSPF Opaque LSA Option
- RFC 2740: OSPF for IPv6
- RFC 3101: The OSPF Not-So-Stubby Area (NSSA) Option
- RFC 3137: OSPF Stub Router Advertisement
- RFC 3623: Graceful OSPF Restart
- RFC 5340: OSPF for IPv6
- RFC 5709: OSPFv2 HMAC-SHA Cryptographic Authentication
- RFC 6549: OSPFv2 Multi-Instance Extensions
- RFC 6845: OSPF Hybrid Broadcast and Point-to-Multipoint Interface Type
- RFC 6860: Hiding Transit-Only Networks in OSPF
- RFC 7474: Security Extension for OSPFv2 When Using Manual Key Management
- RFC 7503: OSPFv3 Autoconfiguration
- RFC 8042: OSPF Two-Part Metric
- RFC 8362: OSPFv3 Link State Advertisement (LSA) Extensibility
Other protocols
- RFC 854: Telnet Protocol Specification
- RFC 2030: Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP) Version 4 for IPv4, IPv6 and OSI
- RFC 2362: Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol Specification
- RFC 3176: InMon Corporation's sFlow: A Method for Monitoring Traffic in Switched and Routed Networks
- RFC 3768: Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
- RFC 3954: Cisco Systems NetFlow Services Export Version 9
- RFC 5101: Specification of the IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX) Protocol for the Exchange of IP Traffic Flow Information
- RFC 5798: Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) Version 3 for IPv4 and IPv6
RADIUS
- RFC 2865: Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS)
- RFC 2866: RADIUS Accounting
- RFC 5176: Dynamic Authorization Extensions to Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS)
RIP
- RFC 1058: Routing Information Protocol
- RFC 2080: RIPng for IPv6
- RFC 2082: RIP-2 MD5 Authentication
- RFC 2453: RIP Version 2
- RFC 4822: RIPv2 Cryptographic Authentication
SNMP
- RFC 1157: A Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
- RFC 2571: An Architecture for Describing SNMP Management Frameworks
- RFC 2572: Message Processing and Dispatching for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
- RFC 2573: SNMP Applications
- RFC 2576: Coexistence between Version 1, Version 2, and Version 3 of the Internet-standard Network Management Framework