RFC 7772 · BEST CURRENT PRACTICE · 2016 MON · 14 SEP 2026

Reducing Energy Consumption of Router Advertisements

By A. Yourtchenko, L. Colitti · Published February 2016 · DOI 10.17487/RFC7772

Overview

RFC 7772, “Reducing Energy Consumption of Router Advertisements”, is a Best Current Practice document published in February 2016 by A. Yourtchenko, L. Colitti. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

Frequent Router Advertisement messages can severely impact host power consumption. This document recommends operational practices to avoid such impact.

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Documents the IETF community's recommended operational or procedural practice rather than a protocol specification.

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