[107003] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: It's Ars Tech's turn to bang the IPv4 exhaustion drum
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alain Durand)
Tue Aug 19 14:31:13 2008
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:30:38 -0400
From: Alain Durand <alain_durand@cable.comcast.com>
To: <sthaug@nethelp.no>
In-Reply-To: <20080819.195043.41651487.sthaug@nethelp.no>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On 8/19/08 1:50 PM, "sthaug@nethelp.no" <sthaug@nethelp.no> wrote:
>> In practice, many routers require the packet to go twice in the hardware if
>> the prefix length is > 64 bits, so even though it is a total waste of space,
>> it is not stupid to use /64 for point-to-point links and even for loopbacks!
>
> Could you provide some documentation on this? First I've heard about it.
Ask your favorite router vendor. This has been confirmed to me by at least 3
major one we use.
- Alain.
