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BEST CURRENT PRACTICE

Authors:

F. Gont
W. Liu
G. Van de Velde

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opsec (ops)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC7610

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Abstract

This document specifies a mechanism for protecting hosts connected toa switched network against rogue DHCPv6 servers. It is based onDHCPv6 packet filtering at the layer 2 device at which the packetsare received. A similar mechanism has been widely deployed in IPv4networks ('DHCP snooping'); hence, it is desirable that similarfunctionality be provided for IPv6 networks. This document specifiesa Best Current Practice for the implementation of DHCPv6-Shield.

For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.

For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.