[c-nsp] Cisco BGP Capability type code 131
Bruce Pinsky
bep at whack.org
Wed Nov 28 21:22:23 EST 2007
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Peter Rathlev wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 09:50 +1030, Tom Storey wrote:
>> google "bgp capability 131"
>>
>> http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4760.txt
>>
> <snip>
>
> I may have misunderstood something here, but as far as I can see,
> RFC4760 chapter 9 describes the SAFI namespace as per
>
> http://www.iana.org/assignments/safi-namespace.
>
> It does not descibe BGP capabilities, as defined in
>
> http://www.iana.org/assignments/capability-codes.
>
> RFC 4760 (and 2858 which it obsoletes) descibes sending BGP capability 1
> ("Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4") with a capability parameter that
> includes a SAFI, which could be 131 as per RFC 4760. (The RFC does not
> describe what SAFI 131 is though, just that it's part of a group which
> was "private use" and is now reserved/unallocated.)
>
> If the OPs question really is: "What is BGP capability 131?" then the
> answer is "Vendor specific" as per IANA definitions.
>
> Maybe OP can add some information to establish a context?
>
BGP Multisession is capability 131
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-idr-bgp-multisession-03
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