[147933] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: subnet prefix length > 64 breaks IPv6?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sthaug@nethelp.no)
Wed Dec 28 08:11:52 2011
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:10:52 +0100 (CET)
To: iljitsch@muada.com
From: sthaug@nethelp.no
In-Reply-To: <B1B542AA-2FA8-4834-A59B-835C88812A2E@muada.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> On the other hand there's also the rule that IPv6 is classless and therefore routing on any prefix length must be supported, although for some implementations forwarding based on > /64 is somewhat less efficient.
Can you please name names for the "somewhat less efficient" part? I've
seen this and similar claims several times, but the lack of specific
information is rather astounding.
Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no
