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Registering New BGP Attribute Types

RFC 2042                  BGP Atrribute Types               January 1997


   Currently in use attribute type codes are listed below:

                 Value      Code                             Reference

                   1       ORIGIN                                  [1]
                   2       AS_PATH                                 [1]
                   3       NEXT_HOP                                [1]
                   4       MULTI_EXIT_DISC                         [1]
                   5       LOCAL_PREF                              [1]
                   6       ATOMIC_AGGREGATE                        [1]
                   7       AGGREGATOR                              [1]
                   8       COMMUNITY                               [2]
                   9       ORIGINATOR_ID                           [3]
                   10      CLUSTER_LIST                            [3]
                   11      DPA                                     [4]
                   12      ADVERTISER                              [5]
                   13      RCID_PATH / CLUSTER_ID                  [5]
                   ...
                   255     reserved for development



Security Considerations

   Security issues are not discussed in this memo.

References

   [1] Rekhter, Y., and Li, T., "A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)",
       RFC 1771, March 1995.

   [2] Chandra, R., Traina, P., and T. Li, "BGP Communities
       Attribute", RFC 1997, August 1996.

   [3] Bates, T., Chandra, R, "BGP Route Reflection An alternative
       to full mesh IBGP", RFC 1998, June 1996.

   [4] Chen, E., Bates, T., "Destination Preference Attribute for BGP",
       Work in progress, March 1996.

   [5] Haskin, D., "A BGP/IDRP Route Server alternative to a full mesh
       routing", RFC 1863, October 1995.

   [6] Reynolds, J., and J. Postel, "Assigned Numbers", STD 2, RFC 1700,
       ISI, October 1994.






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