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RFC and I-D Compliance
Dell Networking OS supports the following standards. The standards are grouped by related protocol. The columns showing
support by platform indicate which version of Dell Networking OS first supports the standard.
General Internet Protocols
The following table lists the Dell Networking OS support per platform for general internet protocols.
Table 107. General Internet Protocols
RFC# Full Name Dell networking OS 9.1(1.0)
768 User Datagram Protocol
793 Transmission Control Protocol
854 Telnet Protocol Specification
959 File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
1321 The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm
1350 The TFTP Protocol (Revision 2)
1661 The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)
1989 PPP Link Quality Monitoring
1990 The PPP Multilink Protocol (MP)
1994 PPP Challenge Handshake Authentication
Protocol (CHAP)
2460 Internationalization of the File Transfer
Protocol
not supported
2474 Definition of the Differentiated Services Field
(DS Field) in the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers
2615 PPP over SONET/SDH
2698 A Two Rate Three Color Marker
3164 The BSD syslog Protocol
draft-ietf-bfd -base-03 Bidirectional Forwarding Detection
General IPv4 Protocols
The following table lists the Dell Networking OS support per platform for general IPv4 protocols.
Table 108. General IPv4 Protocols
RFC# Full Name Dell networking OS 9.1(1.0)
791 Internet Protocol
792 Internet Control Message Protocol
826 An Ethernet Address Resolution Protocol
1027 Using ARP to Implement Transparent Subnet
Gateways
1035 DOMAIN NAMES - IMPLEMENTATION AND
SPECIFICATION (client)
Standards Compliance 1013