Reference document

Org
IETF
Pubnum
RFC 2461
Date
1998-12
Version
6
Title
Neighbor Discovery for IP Version 6 (IPv6)

Applicability

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.

Responsible Party

Name
NCIA/NSII

Status

URI
https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2461.txt

History

Flag Date RFC Version
added 1998-12-01 0.1
changed 2005-09-16 0.7
changed 2017-01-14 9-19 10
changed 2022-12-20 14-62 15
UUID
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