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Extending ICMP for Node Identification
draft-intarea-extended-icmp-nodeid-00

Document Type Replaced Internet-Draft (individual)
Expired & archived
Authors Bill Fenner , Reji Thomas
Last updated 2024-09-26
Replaces draft-fenner-intarea-extended-icmp-hostid
Replaced by draft-ietf-intarea-extended-icmp-nodeid
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Abstract

RFC5837 describes a mechanism for Extending ICMP for Interface and Next-Hop Identification, which allows providing additional information in an ICMP error that helps identify interfaces participating in the path. This is especially useful in environments where each interface may not have a unique IP address to respond to, e.g., a traceroute. This document introduces a similar ICMP extension for Node Identification. It allows providing a unique IP address and/or a textual name for the node, in the case where each node may not have a unique IP address (e.g., the IPv6 nexthop deployment case described in draft-chroboczek-intarea-v4-via-v6).

Authors

Bill Fenner
Reji Thomas

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