RFCs
IP/ICMP/ARP etc.:
RFC 791 - INTERNET PROTOCOL. September 1981. Standard.
RFC 792 - INTERNET CONTROL MESSAGE PROTOCOL. September 1981. Standard.
RFC 826 - An Ethernet Address Resolution Protocol -- or -- Converting Network Protocol Addresses to 48.bit Ethernet Address for Transmission on Ethernet Hardware. November 1982. Standard.
RFC 919 - BROADCASTING INTERNET DATAGRAMS. October 1984. Standard.
RFC 922 - BROADCASTING INTERNET DATAGRAMS IN THE PRESENCE OF SUBNETS. October 1984. Standard.
RFC 950 - Internet Standard Subnetting Procedure. August 1985. Standard.
RFC 1191 - Path MTU Discovery. November 1990. Draft Standard.
RFC 1256 - ICMP Router Discovery Messages. September 1991. Proposed Standard.
RFC 1519 - Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR): an Address Assignment and Aggregation Strategy. September 1993. Proposed Standard.
RFC 1546 - Host Anycasting Service. November 1993. Informational.
RFC 1620 - Internet Architecture Extensions for Shared Media. May 1994. Informational.
RFC 1735 - NBMA Address Resolution Protocol (NARP). December 1994. Experimental.
RFC 1868 - ARP Extension - UNARP. November 1995. Experimental.
RFC 1878 - Variable Length Subnet Table For IPv4. December 1995. Informational.
RFC 1918 - Address Allocation for Private Internets. February 1996. Best Current Practice.
RFC 2113 - IP Router Alert Option. iFebruary 1997. Proposed Standard.
RFC 2332 - NBMA Next Hop Resolution Protocol (NHRP). April 1998. Proposed Standard.
RFC 2390 - Inverse Address Resolution Protocol. September 1998. Draft Standard.
RFC 2474 - Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS Field) in the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers. December 1998. Proposed Standard.
RFC 3022 - Traditional IP Network Address Translator (Traditional NAT). January 2001. Informational.
RFC 3168 - The Addition of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IP. September 2001. Proposed Standard.
RFC 3330 - Special-Use IPv4 Addresses. September 2002. Informational.
RFC 3927 - Dynamic Configuration of IPv4 Link-Local Addresses. May 2005. Proposed Standard.
Link:
RFC 894 - A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams over Ethernet Networks. April 1984. Standard.
RFC 1042 - A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams over IEEE 802 Networks. February 1988. Standard.
RFC 1044 - Internet Protocol on Network Systems HYPERchannel: Protocol Specification. February 1988. Standard.
RFC 1188 - A Proposed Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams over FDDI Networks. October 1990. Draft Standard.
RFC 1201 - Transmitting IP Traffic over ARCNET Networks. February 1991. Standard.
RFC 2734 - IPv4 over IEEE 1394. December 1999. Proposed Standard.
RFC 4338 - Transmission of IPv6, IPv4, and Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) Packets over Fibre Channel. January 2006. Proposed Standard.
RFC 4391 - Transmission of IP over InfiniBand (IPoIB). April 2006. Proposed Standard.
RFC 4392 - IP over InfiniBand (IPoIB) Architecture. April 2006. Informational.
Security:
RFC 1828 - IP Authentication using Keyed MD5. August 1995. Proposed Standard.
more on IPsec in securtiy section under IPv6
Multicast:
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Multicast Page
Mobility:
RFC 2006 - The Definitions of Managed Objects for IP Mobility Support using SMIv2. October 1996. Proposed Standard.
RFC 2290 - Mobile-IPv4 Configuration Option for PPP IPCP. February 1998. Proposed Standard.
RFC 2794 - Mobile IP Network Access Identifier Extension for IPv4. March 2000. Proposed Standard.
RFC 3012 - Mobile IPv4 Challenge/Response Extensions. November 2000. Proposed Standard.
RFC 3024 - Reverse Tunneling for Mobile IP, revised. January 2001. Proposed Standard.
RFC 3115 - Mobile IP Vendor/Organization-Specific Extensions. April 2001. Proposed Standard.
RFC 3344 - IP Mobility Support for IPv4. August 2002. Proposed Standard.
RFC 3543 - Registration Revocation in Mobile IPv4. August 2003. Proposed Standard.
RFC 3846 - Mobile IPv4 Extension for Carrying Network Access Identifiers. June 2004. Proposed Standard.
RFC 4433 - Mobile IPv4 Dynamic Home Agent (HA) Assignment. March 2006. Proposed Standard.
MIB:
RFC 4087 - IP Tunnel MIB. June 2005. Proposed Standard.
RFC 4292 - IP Forwarding Table MIB. April 2006. Proposed Standard.
RFC 4293 - Management Information Base for the Internet Protocol (IP). April 2006. Proposed Standard.
RARP/BOOTP/DHCP etc.:
RFC 903 - A Reverse Address Resolution Protocol. June 1984. Standard.
RFC 951 - BOOTSTRAP PROTOCOL (BOOTP). September 1985. Draft Standard.
RFC 1534 - Interoperation Between DHCP and BOOTP. October 1993. Draft Standard.
RFC 1542 - Clarifications and Extensions for the Bootstrap Protocol. October 1993. Draft Standard.
RFC 1931 - Dynamic RARP Extensions for Automatic Network Address Acquisition. April 1996. Informational.
RFC 2131 - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. March 1997. Draft Standard.
RFC 2132 - DHCP Options and BOOTP Vendor Extensions. March 1997. Draft Standard.
RFC 2855 - DHCP for IEEE 1394. June 2000. Proposed Standard.
RFC 2939 - Procedures and IANA Guidelines for Definition of New DHCP Options and Message Types. September 2000. Best Current Practice.
RFC 3046 - DHCP Relay Agent Information Option. January 2001. Proposed Standard.
RFC 3118 - Authentication for DHCP Messages. June 2001. Proposed Standard.
RFC 3203 - DHCP reconfigure extension. December 2001. Proposed Standard.
RFC 3396 - Encoding Long Options in the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCPv4). November 2002. Proposed Standard.
RFC 4361 - Node-specific Client Identifiers for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Version Four (DHCPv4). February 2006. Proposed Standard.
RFC 4388 - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Leasequery. February 2006. Proposed Standard.
RFC 4390 - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) over InfiniBand. April 2006. Proposed Standard.
RFC 4477 - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP): IPv4 and IPv6 Dual-Stack Issues. May 2006. Informational.
DHCP (Sub)Options:
RFC 2241 - DHCP Options for Novell Directory Services. November 1997. Proposed Standard.
RFC 2485 - DHCP Option for The Open Group's User Authentication Protocol. January 1999. Proposed Standard.
RFC 2563 - DHCP Option to Disable Stateless Auto-Configuration in IPv4 Clients. May 1999. Proposed Standard.
RFC 2610 - DHCP Options for Service Location Protocol. June 1999. Proposed Standard.
RFC 2937 - The Name Service Search Option for DHCP. September 2000. Proposed Standard.
RFC 3004 - The User Class Option for DHCP. November 2000. Proposed Standard.
RFC 3011 - The IPv4 Subnet Selection Option for DHCP. November 2000. Proposed Standard.
RFC 3256 - The DOCSIS (Data-Over-Cable Service Interface Specifications) Device Class DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) Relay Agent Information Sub-option. April 2002. Proposed Standard.
RFC 3361 - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP-for-IPv4) Option for Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Servers. August 2002. Proposed Standard.
RFC 3397 - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Domain Search Option. November 2002. Proposed Standard.
RFC 3442 - The Classless Static Route Option for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) version 4. December 2002. Proposed Standard.
RFC 3456 - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCPv4) Configuration of IPsec Tunnel Mode. January 2003. Proposed Standard.
RFC 3495 - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Option for CableLabs Client Configuration. March 2003. Proposed Standard.
RFC 3527 - Link Selection sub-option for the Relay Agent Information Option for DHCPv4. April 2003. Proposed Standard.
RFC 3594 - PacketCable Security Ticket Control Sub-Option for the DHCP CableLabs Client Configuration (CCC) OptionDynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP). September 2003. Proposed Standard.
RFC 3534 - Key Distribution Center (KDC) Server Address Sub-option for the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) CableLabs Client Configuration (CCC) Option. December 2003. Proposed Standard.
RFC 3679 - Unused Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Option Codes. January 2004. Informational.
RFC 3825 - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Option for Coordinate-based Location Configuration Information. July 2004. Proposed Standard.
RFC 3925 - Vendor-Identifying Vendor Options for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol version 4 (DHCPv4). October 2004. Proposed Standard.
RFC 3942 - Reclassifying Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol version 4 (DHCPv4) Options. November 2004. Proposed Standard.
RFC 3993 - Subscriber-ID Suboption for the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Relay Agent Option. March 2005. Proposed Standard.
RFC 4039 - Rapid Commit Option for the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol version 4 (DHCPv4). March 2005. Proposed Standard.
RFC 4014 - Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) Attributes Suboption for the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Relay Agent Information Option. February 2005. Proposed Standard.
RFC 4030 - The Authentication Suboption for the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Relay Agent Option. February 2005. Proposed Standard.
RFC 4074 - The IPv4 Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Option for the Internet Storage Name Service. September 2005. Proposed Standard.
Misc:
Internet Checksum:
RFC 1071 - Computing the Internet Checksum. September 1988. Unknown.
RFC 1141 - Incremental Updating of the Internet Checksum. January 1990. Informational.
RFC 1624 - Computation of the Internet Checksum via Incremental Update. May 1994. Informational.
RFC 1936 - Implementing the Internet Checksum in Hardware. April 1996. Informational.
MIB basics:
RFC 1213 - Management Information Base for Network Management of TCP/IP-based internets: MIB-II. March 1991. Standard.
RFC 4001 - Textual Conventions for Internet Network Addresses. February 2005. Proposed Standard.
Network Monitoring:
RFC 3273 - Remote Network Monitoring Management Information Base for High Capacity Networks. July 2002. Proposed Standard.
RFC 4502 - Remote Network Monitoring Management Information Base Version 2. May 2006. Draft Standard.
Requirements:
RFC 1122 - Requirements for Internet Hosts -- Communication Layers. October 1989. Standard.
RFC 1123 - Requirements for Internet Hosts -- Application and Support. October 1989. Standard.
RFC 1812 - Requirements for IP Version 4 Routers. June 1995. Proposed Standard.
RFC 2644 - Changing the Default for Directed Broadcasts in Routers. August 1999. Best Current Practice.
Other:
RFC 2309 - Recommendations on Queue Management and Congestion Avoidance in the Internet. April 1998. Informational.
RFC 2469 - A Caution On The Canonical Ordering Of Link-Layer Addresses. December 1998. Informational.
RFC 1296 - Internet Growth (1981-1991). January 1992. Informational.
RFC 1715 - The H Ratio for Address Assignment Efficiency. November 1994. Informational.
RFC 2827 - Network Ingress Filtering: Defeating Denial of Service Attacks which employ IP Source Address Spoofing. May 2000. Best Current Practice.
RFC 3194 - The Host-Density Ratio for Address Assignment Efficiency: An update on the H ratio. November 2001. Informational.
RFC 3549 - Linux Netlink as an IP Services Protocol. July 2003. Informational.
RFC 3717 - IP over Optical Networks: A Framework. March 2004. Informational.
RFC 3819 - Advice for Internet Subnetwork Designers. July 2004. Best Current Practice.
RFC 4085 - Embedding Globally-Routable Internet Addresses Considered Harmful. June 2005. Best Current Practice.
RFC 4459 - MTU and Fragmentation Issues with In-the-Network Tunneling. April 2006. Informational.
RFC 4562 - MAC-Forced Forwarding: A Method for Subscriber Separation on an Ethernet Access Network. June 2006. Informational.
Historic:
RFC 760 - INTERNET PROTOCOL. January 1980.
RFC 761 - TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL. January 1980.
RFC 777 - Internet Control Message Protocol. April 1981.
RFC 1046 - A Queuing Algorithm to Provide Type-of-Service for IP Links. February 1988.
RFC 1349 - Type of Service in the Internet Protocol Suite. July 1992.
Working Group Drafts
Non WG Drafts
Links
IETF Working Group Dynamic Host Configuration (dhc)
IETF Working Group Forwarding and Control Element Separation (forces)
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