RFC 4861

"Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6 (IPv6)", September 2007

Canonical URL:

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4861.txt
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Status:

DRAFT STANDARD

Obsoletes:

RFC 2461

Updated by:

RFC 5942

Authors:

T. Narten
E. Nordmark
W. Simpson
H. Soliman

Stream:

IETF

Source:

ipv6 (int)

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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]

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 4844.