[123248] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IP4 Space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Thu Mar 4 14:06:42 2010
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:06:15 -0800
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <FA2E47FFA50291418803D2E7C1DF07F30A6A671D@SDEXCL01.Proflowers.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 3/4/10 10:52 AM, Thomas Magill wrote:
> So to start off, I'm new to following this list so if these points have
> already been beaten into the ground, feel free to tell me to shut up.
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> So two things I wonder about the preservation of current IP4 space and
> delaying IP6 are:
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> 1. Why don't providers use /31 addresses for P2P links? This
> works fine per rfc 3021 but nobody seems to believe it or use it. Are
> there any major manufacturers out there that do not support it?
>
I posed this to the list in January, and learned that apparently there
are still some vendors whose products choke with presented with a /31.
Search for thread "Using /31 for router links".
~Seth
