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Re: Why specify a default router?



Simon Oosthoek <simon@margo.student.utwente.nl> writes:

> Although I can't remember having heard about ARP for IPv6, I can't imagine
> that something like ARP is not used, because ARP provides mapping from L3
> addresses to L2 and that is certainly not guaranteed to be derivable from
> the L3 address alone.

This is done with Neighbor Discovery; see section 3.1 of RFC 2461
for a list of differences from ARP and related protocols.

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