Graceful BGP Session Shutdown

Pierre Francois , Bruno Decraene , Cristel Pelsser , Keyur Patel and Clarence Filsfils

RFC March 2018
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Abstract

This document standardizes a new well-known BGP community, GRACEFUL_SHUTDOWN, to signal the graceful shutdown of paths. This document also describes operational procedures that use this well-known community to reduce the amount of traffic lost when BGP peering sessions are about to be shut down deliberately, e.g., for planned maintenance.

Publication Details

Publication Type
Miscellaneous
Publication Date
March 2018
Published In
RFC
Volume & Issue
No. 8326
Publisher
RFC Editor
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.17487/RFC8326

BibTeX Citation

@misc{Francois2018,
	title        = {Graceful BGP Session Shutdown},
	author       = {Pierre Francois and Bruno Decraene and Cristel Pelsser and Keyur Patel and Clarence Filsfils},
	year         = 2018,
	month        = mar,
	journal      = {RFC},
	publisher    = {RFC Editor},
	series       = {Request for Comments},
	number       = 8326,
	doi          = {10.17487/RFC8326},
	url          = {https://rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8326.txt},
	howpublished = {RFC 8326},
	abstract     = {This document standardizes a new well-known BGP community, GRACEFUL\_SHUTDOWN, to signal the graceful shutdown of paths. This document also describes operational procedures that use this well-known community to reduce the amount of traffic lost when BGP peering sessions are about to be shut down deliberately, e.g., for planned maintenance.},
	groups       = {RFCs},
	keywords     = {BGP, Graceful shutdown},
	pagetotal    = 12
}

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