Capability Codes

Last Updated

  • 2026-04-03

Available Formats


Capability Codes

Reference

  • RFC 5492: Capabilities Advertisement with BGP-4
  • RFC 8810: Revision to Capability Codes Registration Procedures

Note

The IETF will be the Change Controller for all future registrations.

Available Formats

Range Registration Procedures
1-63 IETF Review
64-238 First Come First Served
239-254 Experimental Use
Value Description Reference Change Controller
0 Reserved RFC 5492 IETF
1 Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4 RFC 2858 IETF
2 Route Refresh Capability for BGP-4 RFC 2918 IETF
3 Outbound Route Filtering Capability RFC 5291 IETF
4 Multiple routes to a destination capability (deprecated) RFC 8277 IETF
5 Extended Next Hop Encoding RFC 8950 IETF
6 BGP Extended Message RFC 8654 IETF
7 BGPsec Capability RFC 8205 IETF
8 Multiple Labels Capability RFC 8277 IETF
9 BGP Role RFC 9234 IETF
10-63 Unassigned
64 Graceful Restart Capability RFC 4724 IETF
65 Support for 4-octet AS number capability RFC 6793 IETF
66 Deprecated (2003-03-06) IETF
67 Support for Dynamic Capability (capability specific) draft-ietf-idr-dynamic-cap-13 IETF
68 Multisession BGP Capability draft-ietf-idr-bgp-multisession-03 IETF
69 ADD-PATH Capability RFC 7911 IETF
70 Enhanced Route Refresh Capability RFC 7313 IETF
71 Long-Lived Graceful Restart (LLGR) Capability RFC 9494 IETF
72 Routing Policy Distribution draft-ietf-idr-rpd-04 IETF
73 FQDN Capability draft-walton-bgp-hostname-capability-01 IETF
74 BFD Strict-Mode Capability draft-ietf-idr-bgp-bfd-strict-mode-13 IETF
75 Software Version Capability draft-abraitis-bgp-version-capability-11 IETF
76 PATHS-LIMIT Capability draft-abraitis-idr-addpath-paths-limit-00 IETF
77 Link-Local Next Hop Capability draft-white-linklocal-capability-04 IETF
78 Edge Metadata Capability (TEMPORARY - registered 2025-05-06, extension registered 2026-04-03, expires 2027-05-06) draft-ietf-idr-5g-edge-service-metadata-29 IETF
79-127 Unassigned
128 Prestandard Route Refresh (deprecated) RFC 8810 IETF
129 Prestandard Outbound Route Filtering (deprecated), prestandard Routing Policy Distribution (deprecated) RFC 8810 IETF
130 Prestandard Outbound Route Filtering (deprecated) RFC 8810 IETF
131 Prestandard Multisession (deprecated) RFC 8810 IETF
132-183 Unassigned
184 Prestandard FQDN (deprecated) RFC 8810 IETF
185 Prestandard OPERATIONAL message (deprecated) RFC 8810 IETF
186-238 Unassigned
239-254 Reserved for Experimental Use RFC 8810 IETF
255 Reserved RFC 8810 IETF

BGP Role Value

Registration Procedure(s)

  • IETF Review

Reference

  • RFC 9234: Route Leak Prevention and Detection Using Roles in UPDATE and OPEN Messages

Available Formats

Value Role name (for the local AS) Reference
0 Provider RFC 9234
1 RS RFC 9234
2 RS-Client RFC 9234
3 Customer RFC 9234
4 Peer (i.e., Lateral Peer) RFC 9234
5-255 Unassigned