IPv6 Neighbor Discovery: Based on Linux Kernel 2.6.34

Extending the work done in the authors’ recent book, TCP/IP Architecture, Design, and Implementation in Linux, this concise and practical guide covers the multiple functionalities of IPv6 Neighbor Discovery for Linux kernel 2.6.34, including address resolution using Neighbor Solicitation and Neighbor Advertisement as well as the correct formatting for Neighbor Solicitation and Neighbor Advertisement. Developers, aspirants, and students seeking to understand the implementation of the IPv6 Neighbor Discovery address resolution feature in Linux in comparison with the equivalent protocol in IPv4 will find this to be an essential reference.

Sameer Seth works at Juniper Networks as Senior Staff Engineer for JUNOS Kernel Team. Previously, he was a senior engineer at Sun Microsystems, where he worked on the TCP/IP stack in Solaris, sockets, streams, NFS, and related kernel framework. He has ten years of experience working with Linux in research and commercial environments. He has also worked on embedded TCP/IP Linux stack as well as on X86 architectures. Additionally, he has worked on different communication protocols on Motorola MPC8260 processors. His community work includes blogging for opensolaris technology (blogs.sun.com/sameer), and he delivers technical talks on open solaris technology. M. Ajaykumar has nine years of experience with Linux networking and kernel, embedded systems, and real-time OS in research and commercial environments. His areas of interest include network OS, UNIX internals and system programming.