NDP – Neighbor Discovery Protocol

In IPv6 we don't have ARP (address determination convention) any longer. ARP is supplanted with ICMP based NDP convention. NDP or ND convention utilizes unique IPv6 ICMP messages to discover and resolve L2 neighbors IPv6 addresses.

It's a straightforward path for hosts to learn IPv6 locations of neighbors on L2 subnet around himself. That incorporates finding out about different hosts and switches on nearby system. That is the greatest contrast in the middle of IPv4 and IPv6, there's no ARP yet ICMP takes the capacity.

NDP is characterized in RFC 2461 and this article will acquaint you with NDP capacities, principle highlights' rundowns, and the related ICMPv6 message sorts.

As the most exact depiction of NDP is that it fits in with the Link layer of the Internet Protocol suite in TCP/IP model. We can say that Link layer of TCP/IP model is essentially an immediate mix of the information connection layer and the physical layer in the OSI Open Systems Interconnection convention stack. As in this online journal I generally attempt to utilize OSI model this article was embedded both to Data-connection and Physical layer classification.



NDP capacity

If there should arise an occurrence of IPv6 systems, the NDP Protocol make utilization of ICMPv6 messages and requested hub multicast addresses for working its center capacity, which is following and finding other IPv6 has that are available on the opposite side of joined interfaces. Another utilization of NDP is location autoconfiguration.

We should talk about some real parts of IPv6 NDP:

◾Stateless location autoconfiguration – SLAAC

◾Duplicate address discovery DAD

◾Router disclosure

◾Prefix disclosure

◾Parameter disclosure join MTU, jump limits

◾Neighbor disclosure

◾Neighbor address determination – replaces ARP in IPv6

◾Neighbor and switch reachability check

With a specific end goal to do work NDP utilizes five sorts of ICMPv6 messages. In the accompanying show you can discover the capacity and also outline of their objectives.

NDP message sorts:

◾Neighbor Advertisements

IPv6 hubs send Neighbor Advertisement (NA) messages intermittently or over and over to advise their vicinity to different hosts present on the same system and in addition send them their connection layer locations.

◾Neighbor Solicitation

IPv6 hubs send NS messages so that the connection layer location of a particular neighbor can be found. There are three operations in which this message is utilized:

▪ For distinguishing copy address

▪ Verification of neighbor reachability

▪ Layer 3 to Layer 2 address determination (for ARP substitution) 
ARP is excluded in IPv6 as a convention yet rather the same usefulness is coordinated into ICMP as a major aspect of neighbor revelation. NA message is the reaction to a NS message. From the figure the empowering of association or correspondence between neighbor disclosures between two IPv6 hosts can be unmistakably seen.

◾Router Advertisement and Router Solicitation

A Cisco IPv6 switch begin sending RA messages for each designed interface prefix when the arrangement of the ipv6 unicast-directing charge is entered. It is conceivable to change the default RA interim (200 seconds) with the assistance of the summon ipv6 nd ra-interim. On a given interface the switch notices incorporate the majority of the 64-bit IPv6 prefixes that are designed on that interface. This grants stateless location autoconfiguration SLAAC to work and create EUI-64 address. If there should arise an occurrence of RAs, connection MTU and bounce points of confinement are incorporated into the message and also the information whether a switch is a hopeful default switch or not.

Keeping in mind the end goal to advise has about the IPv6 prefixes utilized on the connection furthermore to illuminate has that the switch is accessible as default door the IPv6 switches send intermittent RA messages. A Cisco switch that runs IPv6 on an interface publicizes itself as a competitor default switch. This happens as a matter of course. In the event that you need to abstain from promoting of the switch as a default hopeful utilize the summon ipv6 nd ra-lifetime 0. A switch advises the associated has about its vicinity by sending RAs with a lifetime of 0. It further advises associated hosts not to utilize it to achieve has that are found or present past the subnet.

It is conceivable to shroud the vicinity of a switch totally as far as switch notices by basically handicapping switch ads on that switch. It should be possible by issuing the charge ipv6 nd stifle ra.

Ipv6 has at startup can send Router Solicitation (RS) messages to all-switches multicast address. It is entirely useful for the hosts on an offered connection to take in the switch's locations. Sending RS message happens with no sitting tight time for an intermittent RA message. At the point when there is no arranged IPv6 address on host interfaces, RS message is sent from the unspecified source address. Then again, if the host has an arranged address then the wellspring of RS will be from that address.

Copy Address Detection

IPv6 DAD or Duplicate Address Detection is a neighbor requesting capacity. At the point when the location autoconfiguration is performed by host, that host does not naturally accept that the location is special. It will most likely be genuine that the location is one of a kind on the off chance that we realize that EUI-64 procedure is producing the IPv6 address from MAC address which ought to be remarkable. Yes yet imagine a scenario in which there are a few interfaces on that L2 subnet with physically arranged IPv6 addresses. They could be designed notwithstanding as the produced location, isn't that so? One more check is done just certainly and that one is called DAD.

Father works like this

1.The host will firstly join the All Nodes multicast address and Solicited-Node multicast location of the location for which the uniqueness is being checked.

2.Host then just send few NS messages (Neighbor Solicitation messages) to the Solicited-Node address as the destination. The source location field will stay vague with unspecified location which is composed like this "::".

3.The location being checked is composed inside Target Address field which we straightforward allude to as speculative location field.

The wellspring of this message is an unspecified location (::) . There is an one of a kind location in the Target Address field in the NS. On the off chance that the host sending that sort of message gets a NA reaction it implies that the location is not an one of a kind one. The motivation behind utilizing this procedure by IPv6 hosts is to confirm the uniqueness of both the locations i.e. statically designed and autoconfigured.

A sample is that when a host has autoconfigured an interface for the location 2001:128:1F:633:207:85FF:FE80:71B8, a NS is sent to the relating Solicited-hub multicast address, FF02::1:FF80:71B8/104. On the off chance that there is no answer from other host, the hub comes to realize that it is fine to use the autoconfigured address.

Requested hub multicast location points of interest and procedure of creating them from any arbitrary IPv6 unicast or anycast location is clarified in more detail in article: Solicited-hub multicast address from February 2015. 

It is the most effective system depicted here for a switch to perform DAD, because of the reason that on the switch same requested hub location coordinates all autoconfigured addresses. (see the above segment for an exchange of requested hub addresses about "IPv6 Address Autoconfiguration".)

Neighbor Unreachability Detection

It is simple for the IPv6 neighbors to track one another, fundamentally keeping in mind the end goal to guarantee that Layer 3 to Layer 2 location mapping stay current, with the utilization of data discovered by diverse means. It is not just the vicinity of an ad of a neighbor or switch that characterizes reachability yet there is further prerequisite of affirmed, two-way reachability. Be that as it may, it is not vital for a neighbor to approach another hub for its presence and get an answer straightforwardly subsequently. Here are the two methods for a hub affirms reachability:

◾When a host sends a question to the wanted host's requested hub multicast address then it is reacted with a NA or a RA.

◾When a host is cooperating with the coveted host then accordingly it gets it together from a higher-layer convention that two-way correspondence or association is appropriately working. A TCP ACK is one such piece of information. A point to note is that these intimations from higher-layer conventions can work for association arranged conventions. UDP, is such that does not acknowledge casings and, so it can't be used for checking neighbor reachability. In such occasion when a host requires affirmation of another's reachability where just connectionless movement or no activity is going between these hosts then it is vital for the starting host to send a question to the wanted
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