RFC 9131: Gratuitous Neighbor Discovery: Creating Neighbor Cache Entries on First-Hop Routers

Neighbor Discovery (RFC 4861) is used by IPv6 nodes to determine the link-layer addresses of neighboring nodes as well as to discover and maintain…

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Outgoing relationships (13 related RFCs)

Updates, Normative reference — RFC 4861: Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6 (IPv6)
Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Normative reference — RFC 8174: Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC 2119 Key Words
Normative reference — RFC 4291: IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture
Normative reference — RFC 4862: IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration
Normative reference — RFC 4429: Optimistic Duplicate Address Detection (DAD) for IPv6
Informative reference — RFC 3756: IPv6 Neighbor Discovery (ND) Trust Models and Threats
Informative reference — RFC 6775: Neighbor Discovery Optimization for IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks (6LoWPANs)
Informative reference — RFC 4541: Considerations for Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) Snooping Switches
Informative reference — RFC 8505: Registration Extensions for IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Network (6LoWPAN) Neighbor Discovery
Informative reference — RFC 8305: Happy Eyeballs Version 2: Better Connectivity Using Concurrency
Informative reference — RFC 8981: Temporary Address Extensions for Stateless Address Autoconfiguration in IPv6
Informative reference — RFC 6583: Operational Neighbor Discovery Problems

Incoming relationships (2 related RFCs)

Informatively referenced by — RFC 9568: Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) Version 3 for IPv4 and IPv6
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9898: Neighbor Discovery Considerations in IPv6 Deployments