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What is neighbor discovery in IPv6?

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IPv6 Neighbor Discovery. The IPv6neighbordiscovery process uses ICMP messages andsolicited-nodemulticast addresses to determine the link-layeraddress of aneighbor on the same network (local link),verify thereachability of a neighbor, and trackneighboringdevices.


Keeping this in view, what is router advertisement messages for IPv6?

Router Advertisement (IPv6) TheRADVD(Router Advertisement Daemon) is used forIPv6auto-configuration and routing. Whenenabled,messages are sent by the router periodicallyand inresponse to solicitations. A host uses the information tolearn theprefixes and parameters for the localnetwork.

Likewise, what is neighbor solicitation IPv6? An IPv6 node sends theNeighborAdvertisement message in response to a NeighborSolicitationmessage. An IPv6 node also sends unsolicitedNeighborAdvertisements to inform neighboring nodes ofchanges in link-layeraddresses or the node's role.

In this regard, which protocol is used in neighbor discovery in IPv6?

The Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP, ND) isaprotocol in the Internet protocol suiteusedwith Internet Protocol Version 6(IPv6).

Does IPv6 use ARP?

The equivalent of ARP (AddressResolutionProtocol) in IPv6 is NDP (Neighbor DiscoveryProtocol),although there is no “ndp” command. Sadly,you have totype more. (Examples and more are below the video.) Youmay noticesome duplicate and unreachable physical(MAC)addresses.

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