RFC 4191

Default Router Preferences and More-Specific Routes, November 2005

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Status:
PROPOSED STANDARD
Authors:
R. Draves
D. Thaler
Stream:
IETF
Source:
ipv6 (int)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC4191

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Abstract

This document describes an optional extension to Router Advertisement messages for communicating default router preferences and more-specific routes from routers to hosts. This improves the ability of hosts to pick an appropriate router, especially when the host is multi-homed and the routers are on different links. The preference values and specific routes advertised to hosts require administrative configuration; they are not automatically derived from routing tables. [STANDARDS-TRACK]


For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.




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