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RFC 5534: Failure Detection and Locator Pair Exploration Protocol for IPv6 Multihoming

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This document specifies how the level 3 multihoming Shim6 protocol (Shim6) detects failures between two communicating nodes. It also specifies an exploration protocol for switching to another pair of interfaces and/or addresses between the same nodes if a failure occurs and an operational pair can be found. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

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Document ID
RFC5534
Published
June 2009
Authors
J. Arkko; I. van Beijnum
Status
PROPOSED STANDARD
Stream
IETF
Area
int
Pages
36
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