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RFC 7973: Assignment of an Ethertype for IPv6 with Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Network (LoWPAN) Encapsulation

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When carried over Layer 2 technologies such as Ethernet, IPv6 datagrams using Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Network (LoWPAN) encapsulation as defined in RFC 4944 must be identified so the receiver can correctly interpret the encoded IPv6 datagram. The IETF officially requested the assignment of an Ethertype for that purpose and this document reports that assignment.

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Document ID
RFC7973
Published
November 2016
Authors
R. Droms; P. Duffy
Status
INFORMATIONAL
Stream
IETF
Area
int
Pages
5
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