2461: Neighbor Discovery for IP Version 6 (IPv6).

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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.

Status DRAFT STANDARD
Format TXT=222516 bytes
Authors W. Simpson E. Nordmark
Date December 1998
Keyphrases Router Neighbor Solicitation Advertisement

Updated by

RFC4311: IPv6 Host-to-Router Load Sharing.

Obsoletes

RFC1970: Neighbor Discovery for IP Version 6 (IPv6).

References

RFC792: Internet Control Message Protocol.
RFC826: Ethernet Address Resolution Protocol: Or converting network protocol addresses to 48.bit Ethernet address for transmission on Ethernet hardware. David
RFC1122: Requirements for Internet Hosts - Communication Layers.
RFC1256: ICMP Router Discovery Messages.
RFC1546: Host Anycasting Service.
RFC1620: Internet Architecture Extensions for Shared Media.
RFC1700: Assigned Numbers.
RFC1970: Neighbor Discovery for IP Version 6 (IPv6).
RFC2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels.
RFC2373: IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture.
RFC2401: Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol.
RFC2402: IP Authentication Header.
RFC2406: IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP).
RFC2460: Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification.
RFC2462: IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration.
RFC2463: Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification.
RFC2464: Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Ethernet Networks.

Referenced by

RFC2462: IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration.
RFC2463: Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification.
RFC2464: Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Ethernet Networks.
RFC2465: Management Information Base for IP Version 6: Textual Conventions and General Group.
RFC2467: Transmission of IPv6 Packets over FDDI Networks.
RFC2469: A Caution On The Canonical Ordering Of Link-Layer Addresses.
RFC2470: Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Token Ring Networks.
RFC2473: Generic Packet Tunneling in IPv6 Specification.
RFC2491: IPv6 over Non-Broadcast Multiple Access (NBMA) networks.
RFC2492: IPv6 over ATM Networks.
RFC2497: Transmission of IPv6 Packets over ARCnet Networks.
RFC2529: Transmission of IPv6 over IPv4 Domains without Explicit Tunnels.
RFC2545: Use of BGP-4 Multiprotocol Extensions for IPv6 Inter-Domain Routing.
RFC2590: Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Frame Relay Networks Specification.
RFC2740: OSPF for IPv6.
RFC2765: Stateless IP/ICMP Translation Algorithm (SIIT).
RFC2780: IANA Allocation Guidelines For Values In the Internet Protocol and Related Headers.
RFC2893: Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts and Routers.
RFC2894: Router Renumbering for IPv6.
RFC3041: Privacy Extensions for Stateless Address Autoconfiguration in IPv6.
RFC3056: Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds.
RFC3122: Extensions to IPv6 Neighbor Discovery for Inverse Discovery Specification.
RFC3146: Transmission of IPv6 Packets over IEEE 1394 Networks.
RFC3178: IPv6 Multihoming Support at Site Exit Routers.
RFC3306: Unicast-Prefix-based IPv6 Multicast Addresses.
RFC3314: Recommendations for IPv6 in Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Standards.
RFC3315: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6).
RFC3316: Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) for Some Second and Third Generation Cellular Hosts.
RFC3484: Default Address Selection for Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6).
RFC3572: Internet Protocol Version 6 over MAPOS (Multiple Access Protocol Over SONET/SDH).
RFC3590: Source Address Selection for the Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) Protocol.
RFC3627: Use of /127 Prefix Length Between Routers Considered Harmful.
RFC3633: IPv6 Prefix Options for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) version 6.
RFC3682: The Generalized TTL Security Mechanism (GTSM).
RFC3684: Topology Dissemination Based on Reverse-Path Forwarding (TBRPF).
RFC3736: Stateless Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Service for IPv6.
RFC3756: IPv6 Neighbor Discovery (ND) Trust Models and Threats.
RFC3775: Mobility Support in IPv6.
RFC3790: Survey of IPv4 Addresses in Currently Deployed IETF Internet Area Standards Track and Experimental Documents.
RFC3810: Multicast Listener Discovery Version 2 (MLDv2) for IPv6.
RFC3819: Advice for Internet Subnetwork Designers.
RFC3831: Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Fibre Channel.
RFC3904: Evaluation of IPv6 Transition Mechanisms for Unmanaged Networks.
RFC3963: Network Mobility (NEMO) Basic Support Protocol.
RFC3971: SEcure Neighbor Discovery (SEND).
RFC3972: Cryptographically Generated Addresses (CGA).
RFC4007: IPv6 Scoped Address Architecture.
RFC4058: Protocol for Carrying Authentication for Network Access (PANA) Requirements.
RFC4065: Instructions for Seamoby and Experimental Mobility Protocol IANA Allocations.
RFC4067: Context Transfer Protocol (CXTP).
RFC4068: Fast Handovers for Mobile IPv6.
RFC4076: Renumbering Requirements for Stateless Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6).
RFC4135: Goals of Detecting Network Attachment in IPv6.
RFC4191: Default Router Preferences and More-Specific Routes.
RFC4192: Procedures for Renumbering an IPv6 Network without a Flag Day.
RFC4213: Basic Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts and Routers.
RFC4214: Intra-Site Automatic Tunnel Addressing Protocol (ISATAP).
RFC4225: Mobile IP Version 6 Route Optimization Security Design Background.
RFC4241: A Model of IPv6/IPv4 Dual Stack Internet Access Service.
RFC4293: Management Information Base for the Internet Protocol (IP).
RFC4294: IPv6 Node Requirements.
RFC4311: IPv6 Host-to-Router Load Sharing.
RFC4338: Transmission of IPv6, IPv4, and Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) Packets over Fibre Channel.
RFC4339: IPv6 Host Configuration of DNS Server Information Approaches.
RFC4380: Teredo: Tunneling IPv6 over UDP through Network Address Translations (NATs).
RFC4389: Neighbor Discovery Proxies (ND Proxy).
RFC4391: Transmission of IP over InfiniBand (IPoIB).
RFC4429: Optimistic Duplicate Address Detection (DAD) for IPv6.
RFC4443: Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification.
RFC4489: A Method for Generating Link-Scoped IPv6 Multicast Addresses.
RFC4554: Use of VLANs for IPv4-IPv6 Coexistence in Enterprise Networks.
RFC4555: IKEv2 Mobility and Multihoming Protocol (MOBIKE).
RFC4562: MAC-Forced Forwarding: A Method for Subscriber Separation on an Ethernet Access Network.
RFC4620: IPv6 Node Information Queries.
RFC4621: Design of the IKEv2 Mobility and Multihoming (MOBIKE) Protocol.
RFC4727: Experimental Values In IPv4, IPv6, ICMPv4, ICMPv6, UDP, and TCP Headers.