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Re: 31 bit ptp link addressing?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Fri Apr 5 21:35:00 2002

Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 21:34:11 -0500
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.Nether.net>
To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
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	Some providers even use /31s on peering interfaces
if the other side can also.  Most modern router software
supports this feature.

	- jared

On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 08:48:59AM +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Just (mostly) out of personal curiousity - is anyone here running any
> PtP links using 31 bit prefixes rather than the /30's we're all happy
> with?
> 
> If you go "huh?" take a look at rfc3021 - "Using 31-Bit Prefixes on
> IPv4 Point-to-Point Links"
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Adrian
> 
> -- 
> Adrian Chadd			"For a sucessful technology, reality must
> <adrian@creative.net.au>	  take precedence over public relations,
> 				    for nature cannot be fooled" - Feynmann

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