Multicast router discovery

Multicast router discovery (MRD) provides a general mechanism for the discovery of multicast routers on an IP network. For IPv4, the mechanism is based on IGMP. For IPv6 the mechanism is based on MLD. Multicast router discovery is defined by RFC 4286.

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Internet Protocol version 6
General
DeploymentIPv4 to IPv6 topics
  • IPv4 address exhaustion
  • IPv6 transition mechanism
Related protocols


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