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Re: ipv6 book recommendations?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Tue Jun 5 18:23:34 2012

In-Reply-To: <6E302C4A-925B-44C4-8BEA-31FE4E28E31B@delong.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2012 18:23:00 -0400
From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On 6/5/12, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
> On Jun 5, 2012, at 2:23 PM, William Herrin wrote:
>> c. If it's a point to point, a reasonable practice seems to be a /64
>> per network area and around /124 per link. Works OK for ethernet point
>> to points too.
>
> /64 is perfectly reasonable per point to point as well.

Hi Owen,

Sure, but with the neighbor discovery cache issues that come up with
/64's under attack, why open yourself to trouble where you can't
realize any benefit?

Regards,
Bill


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