IETF RFC 4861 IPv6 Neighbor Discovery

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Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6 (IPv6)

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IETF RFC 4861

Description

This standard (RFC) 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.

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IETF RFC 4861 IPv6 Neighbor Discovery

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