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Re: IPv6 Address Planning


From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch () muada com>
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 10:17:40 +0200


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.


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