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Re: Using /31 for router links

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Provo)
Fri Jan 22 19:42:11 2010

Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:41:24 -0500
From: Joe Provo <nanog-post@rsuc.gweep.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4B5A3DFC.4090305@rollernet.us>
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Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 04:08:28PM -0800, Seth Mattinen wrote:
> In the past I've always used /30's for PTP connection subnets out of old 
> habit (i.e. Ethernet that won't take unnumbered) but now I'm considering 
> switching to /31's in order to stretch my IPv4 space further. Has anyone 
> else does this? Good? Bad? Based on the bit of testing I've done this 
> shouldn't be a problem since it's only between routers.

rfc3021 is over 9 years old, so should be no suprise that it works 
well.  :-)

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