BCP 202

RFC 7772

Reducing Energy Consumption of Router Advertisements, February 2016

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Status:
BEST CURRENT PRACTICE
Authors:
A. Yourtchenko
L. Colitti
Stream:
IETF
Source:
v6ops (ops)

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Abstract

Frequent Router Advertisement messages can severely impact host power consumption. This document recommends operational practices to avoid such impact.


For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.




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