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EXPERIMENTAL

Authors:

D. Thaler
M. Talwar
C. Patel

Stream:

IETF

Source:

ipv6 (int)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC4389

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Abstract

Bridging multiple links into a single entity has severaloperational advantages. A single subnet prefix is sufficient tosupport multiple physical links. There is no need to allocatesubnet numbers to the different networks, simplifying management.Bridging some types of media requires network-layer support,however. This document describes these cases and specifies theIP-layer support that enables bridging under these circumstances. This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.

For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.

For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.