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ION/IPng Working Groups                     A. Conta (Lucent)
INTERNET-DRAFT                              R. Duggal (Lucent)
                                            June 1999


      Extensions to IPv6 Neighbor Discovery for Inverse Discovery

                             Specification

                     draft-ietf-ion-ipv6-ind-02.txt


Status of this Memo

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Abstract

   This memo describes extensions to the IPv6 Neighbor Discovery that
   allow a node to solicit and be advertised an IPv6 address
   corresponding to a given link-layer address. These extensions are
   called Inverse Neighbor Discovery. They specifically apply to Frame
   Relay networks but they may also apply to other networks with similar
   behavior.










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Table of Contents

1. Introduction......................................................3
2. Inverse Neighbor Discovery Messages...............................3
   2.1 Inverse Neighbor Discovery Solicitation Message...............3
   2.2 Inverse Neighbor Discovery Advertisement Message..............5
3. Inverse Neighbor Discovery Options Format.........................7
   3.1 Target Address List...........................................7
4. Inverse Neighbor Discovery Protocol...............................8
   4.1 Sender Node Processing........................................8
   4.2 Receiver Node Processing......................................9
     4.2.1 Processing Inverse Neighbor Discovery Solicitations.......9
     4.2.2 Processing Inverse Neighbor Discovery Advertisements......9
   4.3 Message Validation...........................................10
     4.3.1 Validation of Inverse Neighbor Discovery Solicitations...10
     4.3.2 Validation of Inverse Neighbor Discovery Advertisements..11
5. Security Considerations..........................................12
6. Acknowledgments..................................................13
7. References.......................................................13
8. Authors' Addresses...............................................15
Appendix A..........................................................16






























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1. Introduction


   This document defines extensions to the IPv6 Neighbor Discovery (ND).
   The extensions are called IPv6 Inverse Neighbor Discovery (IND).  The
   IPv6 Inverse Neighbor Discovery (IND) allows a node that knows the
   link-layer address of a directly connected remote node to learn the
   IPv6 addresses of that node. A node using IND sends solicitations and
   receives advertisements for one or more IPv6 addresses corresponding
   to a known link-layer address.

   The Inverse Neighbor Discovery (IND) specifically applies to Frame
   Relay networks. It may apply also to other networks that have a
   similar behavior.

   The keywords MUST, MUST NOT, MAY, OPTIONAL,  REQUIRED, RECOMMENDED,
   SHALL, SHALL NOT, SHOULD, SHOULD NOT  are to be interpreted as
   defined in [KEYWORDS].

   There is a number of similarities and differences between the
   mechanisms described here and those defined for Inverse ARP for IPv4
   in [INV-ARP] or its replacement documents.


2. Inverse Neighbor Discovery Messages

   The following messages are defined:

2.1.  Inverse Neighbor Discovery Solicitation Message

   A node sends an Inverse Neighbor Discovery Solicitation message to
   request an IPv6 address corresponding to a link-layer address of the
   target node while also providing its own link-layer address to the
   target. Since the remote node IPv6 addresses are not known, Inverse
   Neighbor Discovery (IND) Solicitations are sent as IPv6 all-node
   multicasts [IPv6], [IPv6-FR], [ENCAPS]. However, at link layer level,
   an IND Solicitation is sent directly to the target node, identified
   by the known link-layer address.

      0                   1                   2                   3
      0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |     Type      |     Code      |          Checksum             |
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |                           Reserved                            |
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |   Options ...
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-



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   IP Fields:

      Source Address
                     An IPv6 address assigned to the interface from
                     which this message is sent.

      Destination Address
                     The IPv6 all-node multicast address. This address
                     is specified in its link-scope format, which is
                     FF02::1.


      Hop Limit      255

      Authentication Header
                     If a Security Association for the IP Authentication
                     Header exists between the sender and the
                     destination link-layer address, then the sender
                     SHOULD include this header.


   ICMP Fields:

      Type           [TBD]

      Code           0

      Checksum       The ICMP checksum.  See [ICMPv6].

      Reserved       This field is unused.  It MUST be initialized to
                     zero by the sender and MUST be ignored by the
                     receiver.

   Required options:

      Source Link-Layer Address
                     The link-layer address of the sender.

      Target Link-Layer Address
                     The link-layer address of the target node.











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   Other valid options:

      MTU            The MTU configured for this link [IPv6-ND].

   Future versions of this protocol may add other option types.
   Receivers MUST silently ignore any options they do not recognize and
   continue processing the message.



2.2   Inverse Neighbor Discovery Advertisement Message

   A node sends Inverse Neighbor Discovery Advertisements in response to
   Inverse Neighbor Discovery Solicitations.

      0                   1                   2                   3
      0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |     Type      |     Code      |          Checksum             |
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |Res|O|                     Reserved                            |
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |   Options ...
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-


   IP Fields:

      Source Address
                     An address assigned to the interface from which the
                     advertisement is sent.

      Destination Address
                     The Source Address of an invoking Inverse Discovery
                     Neighbor Solicitation.

      Hop Limit      255

      Authentication Header
                     If a Security Association for the IP Authentication
                     Header exists between the sender and the
                     destination address, then the sender SHOULD include
                     this header.


   ICMP Fields:

      Type           [TBD]



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      Code           0

      Checksum       The ICMP checksum.  See [ICMPv6].


      Res(erved)     This two bit reserved field MUST be initialized to
                     zero by the sender and MUST be ignored by the
                     receiver.

      O              Override flag.  When set, the O-bit indicates that
                     the advertisement should override an existing ND
                     cache entry and update the cached mapping of the
                     link-layer address to IPv6 address [ND]. When it is
                     not set the advertisement will not update a cached
                     link-layer address to IPv6 address mapping though
                     it will update an existing Neighbor Cache entry for
                     which no IPv6 address is known.  It SHOULD be set.

      Reserved       29-bit unused field. It MUST be initialized to
                     zero by the sender and MUST be ignored by the
                     receiver.

   Required options:

      Source Link-Layer Address
                     This field is copied from the Target link-layer
                     address field of the Inverse Neighbor Discovery
                     Solicitation.

      Target Link-Layer Address
                     This field is copied from the Source link-layer
                     address field of the Inverse Neighbor Discovery
                     Solicitation.

      Target Address List
                     The list of one or more IPv6 addresses of the
                     interface identified by the Target Link-Layer
                     Address in the Inverse Neighbor Discovery
                     Solicitation message that prompted this
                     advertisement.


   Other valid options:

      MTU            The MTU configured for this link
                     [IPv6-ND].

   Future versions of this protocol may add other option types.



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   Receivers MUST silently ignore any options they do not recognize and
   continue processing the message.


3. Inverse Neighbor Discovery Options Formats

   Inverse Neighbor Discovery advertisment messages include Neighbor
   Discovery options as well as an Inverse Neighbor Discovery specific
   option: the Target Address List.


3.1  Target Address List

   The Target Address List option is a TLV (type, length, variable size
   field) option, with the following fields:

      0                   1                   2                   3
      0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |     Type      |    Length   |                                 |
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+        -       -       -        +
     |                          Reserved                             |
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |                                                               |
     +                                                               +
     |                                                               |
     +                        IPv6 Address                           +
     |                                                               |
     +                                                               +
     |                                                               |
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |                                                               |
     +                                                               +
     |                                                               |
     +                        IPv6 Address                           +
     |                                                               |
     +                                                               +
     |                                                               |
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |
     ~
     |
     +-+-+-+-+...

   Fields:

      Type           [TBD]




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      Length         The length of the option (including the Type,
                     Length, and the Reserved fields) in units of 8
                     octets. The minimum value for Length is 3, for one
                     IPv6 address.

      Reserved       This field is unused. It MUST be initialized to
                     zero by the sender and MUST be ignored by the
                     receiver..

      IPv6 Addresses One or more IPv6 addresses of the Frame Relay
                     Interface identified by the Target Link-Layer
                     Address.

   The number of addresses "n" in the list is calculated based on the
   length of the option:

         n = (Length - 1)/2  (Length is the number of groups of 8 octets)

   If the list of IPv6 addresses does not fit in one IND advertisement
   message, one or more IND advertisement messages with the same fields
   as the first message, MAY follow. The Target Address List option(s)
   of the second, and subsequent message(s) contain the rest of the IPv6
   addresses of the interface identified by the Target Link-Layer
   Address, which did not fit in the first message.


4. Inverse Neighbor Discovery Protocol

   IND operates essentially the same as ND [IPv6-ND]: the solicitor of a
   target IP address sends on an interface a solicitation message, the
   target node responds with an advertisement message containing the
   information requested. The information learned may be stored in the
   Neighbor Discovery cache [IPv6-ND], as well as IPv6 address
   structures which may be associated with the interface.


4.1  Sender Node Processing

   A soliciting node formats an IND solicitation message as defined in a
   previous section, encapsulates the packet for the specific link-layer
   and sends it directly to the target node. Although the destination IP
   address is the all-node multicast address, the message is sent only
   to the target node. The significant fields for the IND protocol are
   the Source IP address, the Source link-layer address, the Target
   link-layer address, and the MTU. The latter can be used in setting
   the optimum value of the MTU for the link.

   While awaiting a response, the sender SHOULD retransmit Neighbor



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   Solicitation messages approximately every RetransTimer
   (expiration)[IPv6-ND], even in the absence of additional traffic to
   the neighbor. Retransmissions MUST be rate-limited to at most one
   solicitation per neighbor every RetransTimer.

   If no Neighbor Advertisement is received after MAX_MULTICAST_SOLICIT
   [IPv6-ND] solicitations, inverse address resolution has failed.  The
   sender MUST return ICMP destination unreachable indications with code
   3 (Address Unreachable) for each packet queued awaiting inverse
   address resolution.  Since the error occurs on the packet originating
   node, an implementation is not required to actually create and send
   an ICMP error packet to the source, as long as the upper-layer sender
   is notified through an appropriate mechanism (e.g. return value from
   a procedure call). Note, however, that an implementation may find it
   convenient in some cases to return errors to the sender by taking the
   offending packet, generating an ICMP error message, and then
   delivering it (locally) through the generic error handling routines.


4.2  Receiver Node Processing


4.2.1  Processing Inverse Neighbor Solicitation Messages

   For every IND solicitation, the receiving node may format in response
   a proper IND advertisement using the link-layer source and target
   address pair as well as the IPv6 source address from the IND
   solicitation message. If a node is unable or unwilling to advertise,
   it ignores the solicitation.

   Further, the receiver node of the IND solicitation may put the
   sender's IPv6 address/link-layer address mapping - i.e. the source IP
   address and the Source link-layer address from the solicitation
   message - into its ND cache [IPv6-ND] as it would for a ND
   solicitation.

   Because IPv6 nodes may have multiple IPv6 addresses per interface, a
   node responding to an IND solicitation MUST return in the Target
   Address List option a list containing one or more IPv6 addresses
   corresponding to the interface identified by the Target Link-Layer
   Address field in the solicitation message.


4.2.2  Processing Inverse Neighbor Advertisement Messages

   The receiver node of the IND advertisement puts the sender's IPv6
   address/link-layer address mapping - i.e. the IP addresses from
   Target addresses list and the Source link-layer address from the IND



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   advertisement  message - into its ND cache [IPv6-ND] as it would for
   a ND advertisement.


4.3  Message Validation

   Inverse Neighbor Discovery messages are validated as follows:


4.3.1  Validation of Inverse Neighbor Discovery Solicitations

   A node MUST silently discard any received Inverse Neighbor
   Solicitation messages that do not satisfy all of the following
   validity checks:


       -    The IP Hop Limit field has a value of 255, i.e., the packet
            could not possibly have been forwarded by a router.


       -    If the message includes an IP Authentication Header, the
            message authenticates correctly.


       -    ICMP Checksum is valid.


       -    ICMP Code is 0.


       -    ICMP length (derived from the IP length) is 24 or more
            octets.


       -    The Target Link-Layer Address is a required option and MUST
            be present.


       -    The Source Link-Layer Address is a required option and MUST
            be present.


       -    All included options have a length that is greater than
            zero.

   The content of the Reserved field, and of any unrecognized options,
   MUST be ignored.  Future, backward-compatible changes to the protocol
   may specify the contents of the Reserved field or add new options;



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   backward-incompatible changes may use different Code values.

   The contents of any Neighbor Discovery [IPv6-ND] options that are not
   specified to be used with Inverse Neighbor Discovery Solicitation
   messages MUST be ignored and the packet processed as normal. The only
   defined option that may appear besides the required options is the
   MTU option.

   An Inverse Neighbor Solicitation that passes the validity checks is
   called a "valid solicitation".


4.3.2  Validation of Inverse Neighbor Discovery Advertisements

   A node MUST silently discard any received Inverse Neighbor Discovery
   Advertisement messages that do not satisfy all of the following
   validity checks:


       -    The IP Hop Limit field has a value of 255, i.e., the packet
            could not possibly have been forwarded by a router.


       -    If the message includes an IP Authentication Header, the
            message authenticates correctly.


       -    ICMP Checksum is valid.


       -    ICMP Code is 0.


       -    ICMP length (derived from the IP length) is 24 or more
            octets.


       -    Source Link-Layer Address option is present.


       -    Target Link-Layer Address option is present.


       -    The Target Address List option is present.


       -    The length of the Target Address List option is at least 3.




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       -    All other included options have a length that is greater
            than zero.

   The contents of the Reserved fields, and of any unrecognized options,
   MUST be ignored.  Future, backward-compatible changes to the protocol
   may specify the contents of the Reserved fields or add new options;
   backward-incompatible changes may use different Code values.

   The contents of any defined options [IPv6-ND] that are not specified
   to be used with Inverse Neighbor Advertisement messages MUST be
   ignored and the packet processed as normal. The only defined option
   that may appear besides the required options is the MTU option.

   An Inverse Neighbor Advertisement that passes the validity checks is
   called a "valid advertisement".



5. Security Considerations

   When being employed on point to point virtual circuits, as it is the
   case with Frame Relay networks, Inverse Neighbor Discovery messages
   are less sensitive to impersonation attacks from on-link nodes, as it
   would be the case with broadcast links.

   Like Neighbor Discovery, the protocol reduces the exposure to threats
   from off-link nodes in the absence of authentication by ignoring IND
   packets received from off-link senders.  The Hop Limit field of all
   received packets is verified to contain 255, the maximum legal value.
   Because routers decrement the Hop Limit on all packets they forward,
   received packets containing a Hop Limit of 255 must have originated
   from a neighbor.

   Inverse Neighbor Discovery protocol packet exchanges can be
   authenticated using the IP Authentication Header [IPSEC-Auth].  A
   node SHOULD include an Authentication Header when sending Inverse
   Neighbor Discovery packets if a security association for use with the
   IP Authentication Header exists for the destination address.  The
   security associations may have been created through manual
   configuration or through the operation of some key management
   protocol.

   Received Authentication Headers in Neighbor Discovery packets MUST be
   verified for correctness and packets with incorrect authentication
   MUST be ignored.

   It SHOULD be possible for the system administrator to configure a
   node to ignore any Inverse Neighbor Discovery messages that are not



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   authenticated using either the Authentication Header or Encapsulating
   Security Payload. Such a switch SHOULD default to allowing
   unauthenticated messages.

   Confidentiality issues are addressed by the IP Security Architecture
   and the IP Encapsulating Security Payload documents [IPSEC], [IPSEC-
   ESP].


6. Acknowledgments

   Thanks to Steve Deering, Thomas Narten and Eric Nordmark who spent
   time discussing the idea of Inverse Neighbor Discovery, and reviewing
   this specification. Also thanks to Dan Harrington, Milan Merhar,
   Barbara Fox, and Martin Mueller for a thorough reviewing.


7. References

   [IPv6] S. Deering, R. Hinden, "Internet Protocol Version 6
   Specification", RFC 2460, December 1998.


   [IPv6-ND] T. Narten, E. Nordmark, W.Simpson "Neighbor Discovery for
   IP Version 6 (IPv6)", RFC 2461, December 1998.


   [ICMPv6] A. Conta, S. Deering "Internet Control Message Protocol for
   the Internet Protocol Version 6", RFC 2463, December 1998.


   [IPv6-FR] A. Conta, A. Malis, M. Mueller, "Transmission of IPv6
   Packets over Frame Relay networks" Work in Progress, December 1997.


   [IPSEC]    Atkinson, R., S. Kent, "Security Architecture for the
   Internet Protocol", RFC 2401, November 1998.


   [IPSEC-Auth]  Atkinson, R., S. Kent, "IP Authentication Header", RFC
   2402, December 1998.


   [IPSEC-ESP]   Atkinson, R., S. Kent, "IP Encapsulating Security
   Protocol (ESP)", RFC 2406, November 1998.


   [ASSIGN]  J. Reynolds, J. Postel, "Assigned Numbers", RFC 1700.



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   [ENCAPS]  C. Brown, A. Malis, "Multiprotocol Interconnect over Frame
   Relay", RFC 2427, November 1998.


   [INV-ARP]  T. Bradley, C. Brown, A.Malis "Inverse Address Resolution
   Protocol",RFC 2390, August 1998


   [KEYWORDS] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
   Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.









































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8. Authors' Addresses

   Alex Conta
   Lucent Technologies Inc.
   300 Baker Ave, Suite 100
   Concord, MA 01742
   +1-978-287-2842
   email: aconta@lucent.com



   Raj Duggal
   Lucent Technologies Inc.
   300 Baker Ave, Suite 100
   Concord, MA 01742
   +1-978-287-2805
   email: rduggal@lucent.com


































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Appendix A


A. Inverse Neighbor Discovery with Frame Relay Networks

   This appendix documents the details of using the Inverse Neighbor
   Discovery on Frame Relay Networks, which were too specific to be part
   of the more general content of the previous sections.


A.1  Introduction


   The Inverse Neighbor Discovery (IND) specifically applies to Frame
   Relay nodes.  Frame Relay permanent virtual circuits (PVCs) and
   switched virtual circuits (SVCs) are identified in a Frame Relay
   network by a Data Link Connection Identifier (DLCI). Each DLCI
   defines for a Frame Relay node a single virtual connection through
   the wide area network (WAN). A DLCI has in general a local
   significance.

   By way of specific signaling messages, a Frame Relay network may
   announce to a node a new virtual circuit with its corresponding DLCI.
   The DLCI identifies to a node a virtual circuit, and can be used as
   the equivalent of a remote node link-layer address, allowing a node
   to identify at link layer level the node at the other end of the
   virtual circuit. For instance in Figure 1., node A (local node)
   identifies the virtual circuit to node B (remote node) by way of DLCI
   = 50. However, the signaling message does not contain information
   about the DLCI used by a remote node to identify the virtual circuit
   to the local node, which could be used as the equivalent of the local
   link-layer address. For instance in Figure 1., node B (remote node)
   may identify the virtual circuit to node A by way of DLCI = 70.

   Furthermore, the message being transmitted at link-layer level and
   completely independent of the IPv6 protocol does not include any IPv6
   addressing information. Therefore it seems to be useful to define a
   protocol that allows a Frame Relay node to discover the equivalent of
   a local link layer address, that is, the identifier by way of which
   remote nodes identify the node, and more importantly discover the
   IPv6 addresses of the interface at the other end of the virtual
   circuit, identified by the remote link-layer address.









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                           ~~~~~~~~~~~                 Remote
                          {           }                Node
        +-----+ DLCI     {             }         DLCI+-----+
        |  A  |-50------{--+----+----+--}---------70-|  B  |
        +-----+          {             }             +-----+
        Local             {           } Frame Relay
        Node               ~~~~~~~~~~~  Network Cloud

                    Figure 1.

   The IPv6 Inverse Neighbor Discovery (IND) protocol allows a Frame
   Relay node to discover dynamically the DLCI by which a remote node
   identifies the virtual circuit. It also allows a node to learn the
   IPv6 addresses of a node at the remote end of a virtual circuit.


A.2. Inverse Neighbor Discovery Messages

   The Inverse Neighbor Discovery messages are generated by Frame Relay
   nodes as follows:

A.2.1. Inverse Neighbor Discovery Solicitation Message

   The sender of an Inverse Neighbor Discovery Solicitation does not
   know the remote node's IPv6 addresses, but knows the equivalent of a
   remote node link-layer address. Inverse Neighbor Discovery (IND)
   Solicitations are sent as IPv6 all-node multicasts [IPv6], [IPv6-FR],
   [ENCAPS]. However, at link layer level, an IND Solicitation is sent
   directly to the target node, identified by the known link-layer
   address (DLCI).

   The fields of the message which are filled following considerations
   specific to Frame Relay are:

   Source Link-Layer Address
      For the sender Frame Relay node, the Source Link-Layer Address is
      the equivalent of the link-layer address by which the remote node
      identifies the source of this message. The sender may have no
      knowledge of this information, and may leave this field empty.
      Therefore prior to any Inverse Neighbor Discovery processing, the
      receiver of this message replaces this field, whether filled in or
      not by the sender, with information carried by the Frame Relay
      header in the DLCI field. The field is encoded in DLCI format as
      defined by [IPv6-FR].

   Target Link-Layer Address
      For sender Frame Relay node, the Target Link-Layer Address field
      is filled with the value known as the equivalent of the target



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      node link-layer address.  This value is the DLCI of the VC to the
      target node. It is encoded in DLCI format [IPv6-FR].

   To illustrate the generating of a IND Solicitation message by a Frame
   Relay node, let's consider as an example Node A (Figure 1.) which
   sends an IND solicitation to Node B. The Solicitation message fields
   will have the following values:

      At Node A (sender of the IND solicitation message).

             Source Link-Layer Address
                     DLCI=unknown (overwritten by the receiver).

             Target Link-Layer Address
                     DLCI=50.

      At Node B (receiver of the IND solicitation message).

             Source Link-Layer Address
                     DLCI=70 (filled in by the receiver).

             Target Link-Layer Address
                     DLCI=50.

   Note: For Frame Relay, both the above addresses are in Q.922 format
   (DLCI), which can have 10 (default), 17, or 23 significant addressing
   bits [IPv6-FR]. The option length (link-layer address) is expressed
   in 8 octet units, therefore, the DLCI will have to be extracted from
   the 8 bytes based on the EA field (bit 0) of the second, third, or
   forth octet (EA = 1). The C/R, FECN, BECN, DE fields in the Q.922
   address have no significance for IND and are set to 0 [IPv6-FR].

   MTU
      The value filled in the MTU option is the MTU for the virtual
      circuit identified by the known DLCI [IPv6-FR].


A.2.2  Inverse Neighbor Discovery Advertisement Message

   A Frame Relay node sends Inverse Neighbor Discovery Advertisements in
   response to Inverse Neighbor Discovery Solicitations.


   The fields of the message which are filled following considerations
   specific to Frame Relay are:

   The "Override" Bit in the message header.
      For Frame Relay, the Inverse Neighbor Discovery Advertisement



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      messages unlike the Neighbor Discovery Advertisement messages
      carrying DLCI format link-layer addresses, SHOULD  have the
      Override bit "O", in the message header set to 1.

   Source Link-Layer Address
      For Frame Relay, this field is copied from the Target link-layer
      address field of the Inverse Neighbor Discovery Solicitation. It
      is encoded in DLCI format [IPv6-FR].

   Target Link-Layer Address
      For Frame Relay, this field is copied from the Source link-layer
      address field of the Inverse Neighbor Discovery Solicitation. It
      is encoded in DLCI format [IPv6-FR].

   For example if Node B (Figure 1.) responds to an IND solicitation
   sent by Node A. with an IND advertisement, these fields will have the
   following values:

      At Node B (sender of the advertisement message):

                 Source Link-Layer Address
                     DLCI=50 (was Target in Solicitation Message).

                  Target Link-Layer Address
                     DLCI=70 (was Source in Solicitation Message).

      At Node A (receiver of the advertisement message from B).

                  Source Link-Layer Address
                     DLCI=50 (was Target in Solicitation Message).

                  Target Link-Layer Address
                     DLCI=70 (was Source in Solicitation Message).

   Target Address List
      The list of one or more IPv6 addresses of the interface identified
      by the Target Link-Layer Address in the Inverse Neighbor Discovery
      Solicitation message that prompted this advertisement.

   MTU
      The MTU configured for this link (virtual circuit) [IPv6-ND].

      Note:  In case of Frame Relay networks, the IND messages are sent
      on a virtual circuit, which acts like a virtual-link. If the
      virtual circuit breaks, all participants to the circuit receive
      appropriate link layer signaling messages, which can be propagated
      to the  upper layers, including IPv6.




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A.3. Inverse Neighbor Discovery Protocol

     This section of the appendix documents only the specific aspects of
     Inverse Neighbor Discovery with Frame Relay Networks.

A.3.1  Sender Node Processing

   A soliciting Frame Relay node formats an IND solicitation message as
   defined in a previous section, encapsulates the packet for the Frame
   Relay link-layer [IPv6-FR] and sends it to the target Frame Relay
   node. Although the destination IP address is the IPv6 all-node
   multicast address, the message is sent only to the target Frame Relay
   node. The target node is the known remote node on the link
   represented by the virtual circuit.


A.3.2  Receiver Node Processing


A.3.2.1  Processing Inverse Neighbor Solicitation Messages

   A Frame Relay node, before further processing, is replacing in the
   Source link-layer address the existent DLCI value with the DLCI value
   from the Frame Relay header of the frame containing the message. The
   DLCI value has to be formated appropriately in the Source link-layer
   address field [IPv6-FR]. This operation is required to allow a
   correct interpretation of the fields in the further processing of the
   IND solicitation message.

   For a Frame Relay node, the MTU value from the solicitation message
   MAY be used to set the receiver's MTU to a value that is more
   optimal, in case that was not already done at the interface
   configuration time.


A.3.2.2  Processing Inverse Neighbor Advertisement Messages

   The receiver Frame Relay node of the IND advertisement puts the
   sender's IPv6 address/link-layer address mapping - i.e. the Target IP
   addresses and the Source link-layer address from the IND
   advertisement  message - into its ND cache [IPv6-ND] as it would for
   a ND advertisement.

   Further, the receiver Frame Relay node of the IND advertisement  may
   store the Target link-layer address from the message as the DLCI
   value at the remote end of the VC. This DLCI value is the equivalent
   of the link-layer address by which the remote node identifies the
   receiver.



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   If the receiver node of the IND advertisement has a pool of IPv6
   addresses, and if the implementation allows, it may take decisions to
   pairing specific local IPv6 addresses to specific IPv6 addresses from
   the target list in further communications on the VC.  More
   specifically, such a pairing may be based on IPv6 addresses being on
   the same subnet.













































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