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RFC 4191: Default Router Preferences and More-Specific Routes

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This document describes an optional extension to Router Advertisement messages for communicating default router preferences and more-specific routes from routers to hosts. This improves the ability of hosts to pick an appropriate router, especially when the host is multi-homed and the routers are on different links. The preference values and specific routes advertised to hosts require administrative configuration; they are not automatically derived from routing tables. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

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Document ID
RFC4191
Published
November 2005
Authors
R. Draves; D. Thaler
Status
PROPOSED STANDARD
Stream
IETF
Area
int
Pages
15
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