RFC 7342: Practices for Scaling ARP and Neighbor Discovery (ND) in Large Data Centers

This memo documents some operational practices that allow ARP and Neighbor Discovery (ND) to scale in data center environments.

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Outgoing relationships (8 related RFCs)

Normative reference — RFC 4861: Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6 (IPv6)
Normative reference — RFC 826: An Ethernet Address Resolution Protocol: Or Converting Network Protocol Addresses to 48.bit Ethernet Address for Transmission on Ethernet Hardware
Normative reference — RFC 3971: SEcure Neighbor Discovery (SEND)
Normative reference — RFC 4541: Considerations for Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) Snooping Switches
Normative reference — RFC 4389: Neighbor Discovery Proxies (ND Proxy)
Normative reference — RFC 5227: IPv4 Address Conflict Detection
Normative reference — RFC 1027: Using ARP to implement transparent subnet gateways
Normative reference — RFC 6820: Address Resolution Problems in Large Data Center Networks

Incoming relationships (1 related RFC)

Informatively referenced by — RFC 9898: Neighbor Discovery Considerations in IPv6 Deployments