RFC 6820 · INFORMATIONAL · 2013

Address Resolution Problems in Large Data Center Networks

Overview

RFC 6820, “Address Resolution Problems in Large Data Center Networks”, is an Informational document published in January 2013 by T. Narten, M. Karir, I. Foo. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

This document examines address resolution issues related to the scaling of data centers with a very large number of hosts. The scope of this document is relatively narrow, focusing on address resolution (the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) in IPv4 and Neighbor Discovery (ND) in IPv6) within a data center. This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).

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Published for the general information of the community. It does not define an IETF standard and carries no standards-track status.

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