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IETF RFC 4861
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Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6 (IPv6)

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Publisher
IETF
Doc Type
Standard
Pages
97
Abstract
This document specifies the Neighbor Discovery protocol for IP Version 6. IPv6 nodes on the same link use Neighbor Discovery to discover each other's presence, to determine each other's link-layer addresses, to find routers, and to maintain reachability information about the paths to active neighbors. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
Publication Date
2007-09-01
Status Note
Draft Standard
DOI
10.17487/RFC4861
Link
https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC4861
Author(s)
Dr. Thomas Narten
Erik Nordmark
William A. Simpson
Hesham Soliman
Keyword(s)
IPV6-ND, IP, Link-layer
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