IPv6 ND Functions Compared to Equivalent IPv4 Functions
The IPv6 ND protocol has the distinction of being the only truly new protocol created as part of the core of IPv6; there is no previous version of ND. Of course, most of the services that ND provides to IPv6 were also required in IPv4. They were just provided in a rather diverse set of protocols and standards that the ND protocol has formalized, integrated, and improved.
What this means is that while ND is new, the jobs it does are equivalent to the tasks performed by several other protocols in IPv4. Specifically, the bulk of ND functions correspond to the following set of standards, features, and message types in IPv4:
ICMPv4 Router Discovery Most of the functions associated with identifying ...
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