Reference document

Org
IETF
Pubnum
RFC 4861
Date
2007-09
Version
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
NATO Communications and Information Agency

Status

URI
https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4861.txt

History

Flag Date RFC Version
added 2007-02-21 1
changed 2017-01-14 9-14 10
changed 2022-12-20 14-62 15
UUID
1fd6df76-4ab4-4a9d-9581-29d4da0d719b

Relationships

This standard is used by the following service profiles: