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RFC 2710
Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) for IPv6,October 1999
- File formats:
- Status:
- PROPOSED STANDARD
- Updated by:
- RFC 3590,RFC 3810,RFC 9777
- Authors:
- S. Deering
W. Fenner
B. Haberman - Stream:
- IETF
- Source:
- ipngwg (int)
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC2710
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Abstract
This document specifies the protocol used by an IPv6 router to discover the presence of multicast listeners (that is, nodes wishing to receive multicast packets) on its directly attached links, and to discover specifically which multicast addresses are of interest to those neighboring nodes. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.
For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.