[37108] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Use of IPv6 /127 prefixes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dwight A. Ernest)
Tue May 1 13:40:52 2001
Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 13:37:07 -0400
From: "Dwight A. Ernest" <dwight@significant.com>
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In-Reply-To: <200105010633.f416X4L05632@foo-bar-baz.cc.vt.edu>; from Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu on Tue, May 01, 2001 at 02:33:04AM -0400
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On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 02:33:04AM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>
> 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.
RFC3021
