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Re: IPv6 Default Allocation - What size allocation are you giving out

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Thu Oct 9 14:49:42 2014

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From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 14:42:21 -0400
To: Baldur Norddahl <baldur.norddahl@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Baldur Norddahl
<baldur.norddahl@gmail.com> wrote:
> Why do people assign addresses to point-to-point links at all?

It makes remote detection of carrier on the interface as simple as "ping"

-Bill



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