Conventional BGP-4 manages only IPv4 unicast routing information, and inter-AS transmission of packets of other network layer protocols, such as IPv6 and multicast, is limited. To support multiple network layer protocols, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) extends BGP-4 to Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4 (MP-BGP). RFC 4760 defines the MP-BGP standard. MP-BGP is forward compatible. …