RFC 6820: Address Resolution Problems in Large Data Center Networks

This document examines address resolution issues related to the scaling of data centers with a very large number of hosts. The scope of this document is…

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Outgoing relationships (7 related RFCs)

Informative reference — RFC 4861: Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6 (IPv6)
Informative reference — RFC 1122: Requirements for Internet Hosts - Communication Layers
Informative reference — RFC 792: Internet Control Message Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 826: An Ethernet Address Resolution Protocol: Or Converting Network Protocol Addresses to 48.bit Ethernet Address for Transmission on Ethernet Hardware
Informative reference — RFC 1812: Requirements for IP Version 4 Routers
Informative reference — RFC 6583: Operational Neighbor Discovery Problems
Informative reference — RFC 5227: IPv4 Address Conflict Detection

Incoming relationships (5 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 7342: Practices for Scaling ARP and Neighbor Discovery (ND) in Large Data Centers
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9161: Operational Aspects of Proxy ARP/ND in Ethernet Virtual Private Networks
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7586: The Scalable Address Resolution Protocol (SARP) for Large Data Centers
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7814: Virtual Subnet: A BGP/MPLS IP VPN-Based Subnet Extension Solution
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8302: Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL): ARP and Neighbor Discovery (ND) Optimization