{"id":337,"date":"2019-10-25T08:01:14","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T08:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rtechblog.psg.com\/?p=337"},"modified":"2019-10-25T08:02:11","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T08:02:11","slug":"rfc-8654-extended-message-support-for-bgp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rtechblog.rg.net\/?p=337","title":{"rendered":"RFC 8654: Extended Message Support for BGP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><code>    RFC 8654<\/code>\n<code>    Title:      Extended Message Support for BGP<\/code>\n<code>    Author:     R. Bush,<\/code>\n<code>                K. Patel,<\/code>\n<code>                D. Ward<\/code>\n<code>    Status:     Standards Track<\/code>\n<code>    Stream:     IETF<\/code>\n<code>    Date:       October 2019<\/code>\n<code>    Mailbox:    randy@psg.com,<\/code>\n<code>                keyur@arrcus.com,<\/code>\n<code>                dward@cisco.com<\/code>\n<code>    Pages:      7<\/code>\n<code>    Updates:    RFC 4271<\/code>\n<code>    I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-idr-bgp-extended-messages-36.txt<\/code>\n<code>    URL:        https:\/\/www.rfc-editor.org\/info\/rfc8654<\/code>\n<code>    DOI:        10.17487\/RFC8654<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>The BGP specification (RFC 4271) mandates a maximum BGP message size of 4,096 octets.  As BGP is extended to support new Address Family Identifiers (AFIs), Subsequent AFIs (SAFIs), and other features, there is a need to extend the maximum message size beyond 4,096 octets.  This document updates the BGP specification by extending the maximum message size from 4,096 octets to 65,535 octets for all messages except for OPEN and KEEPALIVE messages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RFC 8654 Title: Extended Message Support for BGP Author: R. Bush, K. Patel, D. Ward Status: Standards Track Stream: IETF Date: October 2019 Mailbox: randy@psg.com, keyur@arrcus.com, dward@cisco.com Pages: 7 Updates: RFC 4271 I-D Tag: draft-ietf-idr-bgp-extended-messages-36.txt URL: https:\/\/www.rfc-editor.org\/info\/rfc8654 DOI: 10.17487\/RFC8654 The BGP specification (RFC 4271) mandates a maximum BGP message size of 4,096 octets. As BGP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ietf","category-routers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtechblog.rg.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtechblog.rg.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtechblog.rg.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtechblog.rg.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtechblog.rg.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rtechblog.rg.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"https:\/\/rtechblog.rg.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtechblog.rg.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtechblog.rg.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtechblog.rg.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}