[175176] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Default Allocation - What size allocation are you giving out
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tore Anderson)
Fri Oct 10 01:25:53 2014
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Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 07:25:40 +0200
From: Tore Anderson <tore@fud.no>
To: Baldur Norddahl <baldur.norddahl@gmail.com>,
"nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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* Baldur Norddahl
> 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.
Why do you need those host routes?
Most IPv6 IGPs work just fine without global addresses or host routes.
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-opsec-lla-only-11
Tore
