[175139] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Default Allocation - What size allocation are you giving out
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Baldur Norddahl)
Thu Oct 9 14:40:28 2014
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Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 20:34:14 +0200
From: Baldur Norddahl <baldur.norddahl@gmail.com>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 9 October 2014 19:55, Richard Hicks <richard.hicks@gmail.com> wrote:
> The BCOP specfically addresses this in 4b:
> " *b. Point-to-point links should be allocated a /64 and configured with a
> /126 or /127*"
>
Why do people assign addresses to point-to-point links at all? You can just
use a host /128 route to the loopback address of the peer. Saves you the
hassle of coming up with new addresses for every link. Same trick works for
IPv4 too.
Regards,
Baldur
