RFC 6085

"Address Mapping of IPv6 Multicast Packets on Ethernet", January 2011

Canonical URL:

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6085.txt
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Status:

PROPOSED STANDARD

Updates:

RFC 2464

Authors:

S. Gundavelli
M. Townsley
O. Troan
W. Dec

Stream:

IETF

Source:

NON WORKING GROUP

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Abstract

When transmitting an IPv6 packet with a multicast destination address, the IPv6 destination address is mapped to an Ethernet link-layer multicast address. This document clarifies that a mapping of an IPv6 packet with a multicast destination address may in some circumstances map to an Ethernet link-layer unicast address. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 4844.