[37092] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Use of IPv6 /127 prefixes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Tue May 1 03:59:28 2001
Message-Id: <200105010633.f416X4L05632@foo-bar-baz.cc.vt.edu>
To: Mike Leber <mleber@he.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 30 Apr 2001 18:00:23 PDT."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 02:33:04 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 18:00:23 PDT, Mike Leber <mleber@he.net> said:
> Why do /127s work for point to point links?
Because a point-to-point has no *real* concept of "address" other
than "my end" and "your end". There was a recent RFC regarding the
use of /31's in IPv4 space that relied on the same logic.
Valdis Kletnieks
Operating Systems Analyst
Virginia Tech
