RFC 8203 - BGP Administrative Shutdown Communication
Status: Standards Track
Published: July 2017
Authors: J. Snijders (NTT), J. Heitz (Cisco), J. Scudder (Juniper)
Abstract
This document enhances the BGP Cease NOTIFICATION message "Administrative Shutdown" and "Administrative Reset" subcodes for operators to transmit a short freeform message to describe why a BGP session was shutdown or reset. This document updates RFC 4486.
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This is an Internet Standards Track document.
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