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BEST CURRENT PRACTICE
Authors:
F. Gont
W. Liu
G. Van de Velde
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC7610
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Abstract
This document specifies a mechanism for protecting hosts connected to a switched network against rogue DHCPv6 servers. It is based on DHCPv6 packet filtering at the layer 2 device at which the packets are received. A similar mechanism has been widely deployed in IPv4 networks ('DHCP snooping'); hence, it is desirable that similar functionality be provided for IPv6 networks. This document specifies a Best Current Practice for the implementation of DHCPv6-Shield.
For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.
For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.