RFC 8161: Benchmarking the Neighbor Discovery Protocol
In plain English — editorial summary, not part of the RFC
This document provides benchmarking procedures for the Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP). It also proposes metrics by which an NDP implementation's scaling capabilities can be measured.
Document record
- Document ID
- RFC8161
- Published
- May 2017
- Authors
- W. Cerveny; R. Bonica; R. Thomas
- Status
- INFORMATIONAL
- Stream
- IETF
- Area
- ops
- Pages
- 17
- Also known as
- —
Topics
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