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Choice of network space when numbering interfaces with IPv6

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Zaid Ali)
Fri Oct 15 15:26:30 2010

Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 12:26:13 -0700
From: Zaid Ali <zaid@zaidali.com>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

SO I have been turning up v6 with multiple providers now and notice that
some choose /64 for numbering interfaces but one I came across use a /126. A
/126 is awfully large (for interface numbering) and I am curious if there is
some rationale behind using a /126 instead of a /64.

Zaid




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