[83283] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Address Planning
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Wed Aug 10 04:19:16 2005
In-Reply-To: <17145.20559.189118.619457@roam.psg.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 10:17:40 +0200
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 10-aug-2005, at 2:54, Randy Bush wrote:
> on this side of the puddles, i think most folk use /126s for p2p
> links.
> this has been endlessly and loudly debated, but it still seems
> extremely
> strange to use 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 addresses for a p2p link.
Well, if you want to be really environmentally conscious, do away
with that /126 too and just use link-locals, with a single global
address per router for management and the generation of ICMPs.