Neighbor Discovery for IP Version 6 (IPv6)

Neighbor Discovery for IP Version 6 (IPv6) | | Status of this Memo This document is an Internet-Draft. Internet-Drafts are working * documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as ''work in progress.'' To learn the current status of any Internet-Draft, please check the ''1id-abstracts.txt'' listing contained in the Internet-Drafts Shadow Directories on ds.internic.net (US East Coast), nic.nordu.net 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. * draft-ietf-ipngwg-discovery-v2-00.txt [Page 1]