RFC 6997 · EXPERIMENTAL · 2013

Reactive Discovery of Point-to-Point Routes in Low-Power and Lossy Networks

Overview

RFC 6997, “Reactive Discovery of Point-to-Point Routes in Low-Power and Lossy Networks”, is an Experimental document published in August 2013 by M. Goyal, E. Baccelli, M. Philipp, A. Brandt, J. Martocci. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

This document specifies a point-to-point route discovery mechanism, complementary to the Routing Protocol for Low-power and Lossy Networks (RPL) core functionality. This mechanism allows an IPv6 router to discover "on demand" routes to one or more IPv6 routers in a Low-power and Lossy Network (LLN) such that the discovered routes meet specified metrics constraints.

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