File formats:

Status:

DRAFT STANDARD

Obsoletes:

RFC 2461

Updated by:

RFC 5942, RFC 6980, RFC 7048, RFC 7527, RFC 7559, RFC 8028, RFC 8319, RFC 8425, RFC 9131

Authors:

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

Stream:

IETF

Source:

ipv6 (int)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC4861

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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 Status, see RFC 2026.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.