[83294] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Address Planning
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Wed Aug 10 10:04:13 2005
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Cc: NANOG list <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 15:46:33 +0200
To: Christopher L.Morrow <christopher.morrow@mci.com>
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On 10-aug-2005, at 15:06, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
>> 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.
> and you ping the customer links how? (or did I miss the point of the
> link-locals?)
You don't. I don't think the point of link-locals has much to do with
pinging customers... But since IPv6 routing protocols work over link-
locals you don't need global addresses.
If you want to ping your customers you should probably use a /126 so
they can only use the specific address you give them. You need that
anyway if you want to route a /48 or what have you to them.
BTW, there is discussion about rethinking /48s for customers in IPv6.
Thoughts?