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This draft is a work item of the Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol Working Group of the IETF.
Title : Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol for IPv6
Author(s) : R. Hinden
Filename : draft-ietf-vrrp-ipv6-spec-03.txt
Pages : 31
Date : 2002-12-6
This memo defines the Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) for
IPv6. It is version three (3) of the protocol. It is based on the
original version of VRRP (version 2) for IPv4 that is defined in
RFC2338.
VRRP specifies an election protocol that dynamically assigns
responsibility for a virtual router to one of the VRRP routers on a
LAN. The VRRP router controlling the IP address associated with a
virtual router is called the Master, and forwards packets sent to
this IP address. The election process provides dynamic fail over in
the forwarding responsibility should the Master become unavailable.
The advantage gained from using VRRP for IPv6 is a quicker switch
over to back up routers than can be obtained with standard IPv6
Neighbor Discovery [ND] mechanisms.
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