rfc-4957

Link-Layer Event Notifications for Detecting Network Attachments

S. Krishnan (Editor), N. Montavont, E. Njedjou, S. Veerepalli, A. Yegin (Editor)
date2007-08 streamIETF areaint wgdna statusINFORMATIONAL pages18 canonicalhttps://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4957 doi10.17487/RFC4957 errataview
Certain network access technologies are capable of providing various types of link-layer status information to IP. Link-layer event notifications can help IP expeditiously detect configuration changes. This document provides a non-exhaustive catalogue of information available from well-known access technologies. This memo provides information for the Internet community.