RFC 6935: IPv6 and UDP Checksums for Tunneled Packets

This document updates the IPv6 specification (RFC 2460) to improve performance when a tunnel protocol uses UDP with IPv6 to tunnel packets. The performance…

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Outgoing relationships (8 related RFCs)

Updates, Normative reference — RFC 2460: Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Normative reference — RFC 6936: Applicability Statement for the Use of IPv6 UDP Datagrams with Zero Checksums
Informative reference — RFC 2827: Network Ingress Filtering: Defeating Denial of Service Attacks which employ IP Source Address Spoofing
Informative reference — RFC 3828: The Lightweight User Datagram Protocol (UDP-Lite)
Informative reference — RFC 5405: Unicast UDP Usage Guidelines for Application Designers
Informative reference — RFC 6830: The Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP)
Informative reference — RFC 5619: Softwire Security Analysis and Requirements

Incoming relationships (9 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 7510: Encapsulating MPLS in UDP
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8086: GRE-in-UDP Encapsulation
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8304: Transport Features of the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) and Lightweight UDP (UDP-Lite)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9299: An Architectural Introduction to the Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8200: Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9300: The Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7450: Automatic Multicast Tunneling
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9868: Transport Options for UDP
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9305: Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP) Generic Protocol Extension