RFC 7772: Reducing Energy Consumption of Router Advertisements

Frequent Router Advertisement messages can severely impact host power consumption. This document recommends operational practices to avoid such impact.

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Outgoing relationships (1 related RFC)

Informative reference — RFC 6104: Rogue IPv6 Router Advertisement Problem Statement

Incoming relationships (6 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 8929: IPv6 Backbone Router
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8273: Unique IPv6 Prefix per Host
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9096: Improving the Reaction of Customer Edge Routers to IPv6 Renumbering Events
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9099: Operational Security Considerations for IPv6 Networks
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8386: Privacy Considerations for Protocols Relying on IP Broadcast or Multicast
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9898: Neighbor Discovery Considerations in IPv6 Deployments