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Re: ipv6 book recommendations?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Tue Jun 5 18:30:59 2012

From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAC1-dtnFRoi=ES_yuXUKWpwXNaeyH9s2w_nYy_v_7toGVHvCDA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2012 15:29:53 -0700
To: Chris Grundemann <cgrundemann@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org


On Jun 5, 2012, at 3:15 PM, Chris Grundemann wrote:

>> On Jun 5, 2012, at 2:23 PM, William Herrin wrote:
>=20
>>> 2. Subnetting in v6 in a nutshell:
>=20
> FWIW - There is a published BCOP on IPv6 subnetting:
> http://www.ipbcop.org/ratified-bcops/bcop-ipv6-subnetting/
>=20

Unfortunately, this BCOP recommends /56s for residential which is
potentially harmful.

I'm also not a fan of the /126 or /127 on point-to-points, but, the =
theoretical
issues of neighbor table exhaustion attacks, etc. certainly should not
be ignored entirely.

Owen



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