RFC 6957: Duplicate Address Detection Proxy
In plain English — editorial summary, not part of the RFC
The document describes a proxy-based mechanism allowing the use of Duplicate Address Detection (DAD) by IPv6 nodes in a point-to-multipoint architecture with a "split-horizon" forwarding scheme, primarily deployed for Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) and Fiber access architectures. Based on the DAD signaling, the first-hop router stores in a Binding Table all known IPv6 addresses used on a point-to-multipoint domain (e.g., VLAN). When a node performs DAD for an address already used by another node, the first-hop router defends the address rather than the device using the address.
Document record
- Document ID
- RFC6957
- Published
- June 2013
- Authors
- F. Costa; J-M. Combes; X. Pougnard; H. Li
- Status
- PROPOSED STANDARD
- Stream
- IETF
- Area
- int
- Pages
- 16
- Also known as
- —
Topics
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