Part I Introducing System Administration: IP Services
1. Oracle Solaris TCP/IP Protocol Suite (Overview)
2. Planning Your TCP/IP Network (Tasks)
3. Introducing IPv6 (Overview)
Address Autoconfiguration and Neighbor Discovery
Improved Support for IP Header Options
Application Support for IPv6 Addressing
IPv6 Requests for Comments and Internet Drafts
Transitional Global Unicast Addresses
IPv6 Address Autoconfiguration
Stateless Autoconfiguration Overview
4. Planning an IPv6 Network (Tasks)
5. Configuring TCP/IP Network Services and IPv4 Addressing (Tasks)
6. Administering Network Interfaces (Tasks)
7. Configuring an IPv6 Network (Tasks)
8. Administering a TCP/IP Network (Tasks)
9. Troubleshooting Network Problems (Tasks)
10. TCP/IP and IPv4 in Depth (Reference)
13. Planning for DHCP Service (Tasks)
14. Configuring the DHCP Service (Tasks)
15. Administering DHCP (Tasks)
16. Configuring and Administering the DHCP Client
17. Troubleshooting DHCP (Reference)
18. DHCP Commands and Files (Reference)
19. IP Security Architecture (Overview)
21. IP Security Architecture (Reference)
22. Internet Key Exchange (Overview)
24. Internet Key Exchange (Reference)
25. IP Filter in Oracle Solaris (Overview)
28. Administering Mobile IP (Tasks)
29. Mobile IP Files and Commands (Reference)
30. Introducing IPMP (Overview)
31. Administering IPMP (Tasks)
Part VII IP Quality of Service (IPQoS)
32. Introducing IPQoS (Overview)
33. Planning for an IPQoS-Enabled Network (Tasks)
34. Creating the IPQoS Configuration File (Tasks)
35. Starting and Maintaining IPQoS (Tasks)
36. Using Flow Accounting and Statistics Gathering (Tasks)
IPv6 introduces the Neighbor Discovery protocol, which uses messaging as the means to handle the interaction between neighbor nodes. Neighbor nodes are IPv6 nodes that are on the same link. For example, by issuing neighbor discovery-related messages, a node can learn a neighbor's link-local address. Neighbor Discovery controls the following major activities on the IPv6 local link:
Router discovery – Aids hosts in locating routers on the local link.
Address autoconfiguration – Enables a node to automatically configure IPv6 addresses for its interfaces.
Prefix discovery – Enables nodes to discover the known subnet prefixes that have been allocated to a link. Nodes use prefixes to distinguish destinations that are on the local link from those destinations that are only reachable through a router.
Address resolution – Helps nodes to determine the link-local address of a neighbor, given only the destinations's IP address.
Next-hop determination – Uses an algorithm to determine the IP address of a packet recipient one hop that is beyond the local link. The next-hop can be a router or the destination node.
Neighbor unreachability detection – Aids nodes to determine if a neighbor is no longer reachable. For both routers and hosts, address resolution can be repeated.
Duplicate address detection – Enables a node to determine if an address that the node wants to use is not already in use.
Redirection – Enables a router to inform a host of a better first-hop node to use to reach a particular destination.
Neighbor Discovery uses the following ICMP message types for communication among nodes on a link:
Router solicitation
Router advertisement
Neighbor solicitation
Neighbor advertisement
Redirection
For detailed information on Neighbor Discovery messages and other Neighbor Discovery protocol topics, refer to IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Protocol. For technical information on Neighbor Discovery, see RFC 2461, Neighbor Discovery for IP Version 6 (IPv6).