File formats:

Status:

PROPOSED STANDARD

Updated by:

RFC 7488, RFC 7652, RFC 7843

Authors:

D. Wing, Ed.
S. Cheshire
M. Boucadair
R. Penno
P. Selkirk

Stream:

IETF

Source:

pcp (int)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC6887

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Abstract

The Port Control Protocol allows an IPv6 or IPv4 host to control how incoming IPv6 or IPv4 packets are translated and forwarded by a Network Address Translator (NAT) or simple firewall, and also allows a host to optimize its outgoing NAT keepalive messages.

For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.