Neighbor Discovery Protocol

Neighbor Discovery Protocol

The Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP) is a protocol in the Internet Protocol Suite used with Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6). It operates in the Link Layer of the Internet model (RFC 1122) and is responsible for address autoconfiguration of nodes, discovery of other nodes on the link, determining the Link Layer addresses of other nodes, duplicate address detection, finding available routers and Domain Name System (DNS) servers, address prefix discovery, and maintaining reachability information about the paths to other active neighbor nodes (RFC 4861).[1]

The protocol defines five different ICMPv6 packet types to perform functions for IPv6 similar to the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) and Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) Router Discovery and Router Redirect protocols for IPv4. However, it provides many improvements over its IPv4 counterparts (RFC 4861, section 3.1). For example, it includes Neighbor Unreachability Detection (NUD), thus improving robustness of packet delivery in the presence of failing routers or links, or mobile nodes.

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Contents

Technical details

The Neighbor Discovery Protocol defines mechanisms for providing the following functionality:

  • Router discovery: hosts can locate routers residing on attached links.
  • Prefix discovery: hosts can discover address prefixes that are on-link for attached links.
  • Parameter discovery: hosts can find link parameters (e.g., MTU).
  • Address autoconfiguration: stateless configuration of addresses of network interfaces.
  • Address resolution: mapping between IP addresses and link-layer addresses.
  • Next-hop determination: hosts can find next-hop routers for a destination.
  • Neighbor unreachability detection (NUD): determine that a neighbor is no longer reachable on the link.
  • Duplicate address detection (DAD): nodes can check whether an address is already in use.
  • Redirect: router can inform a node about better first-hop routers.
  • Recursive DNS Server (RDNSS) and DNS Search List (DNSSL) assignment via a router advertisement (RA) options.[2] This is a new feature and not widely supported by clients.

NDP defines the following five ICMPv6 packet types:[3]Router Solicitation, Router Advertisement, Neighbor Solicitation, Neighbor Advertisement, and Redirect.

See also

References

  1. ^ RFC 4861, Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6 (IPv6), T. Narten et al. (September 2007)
  2. ^ RFC 6106, IPv6 Router Advertisement Options for DNS Configuration, J. Jeong (Ed.), S. Park, L. Beloeil, S. Madanapalli (November 2010)
  3. ^ RFC 2461, Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6 (IPv6), T. Narten, December 1998

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