Re: It's Ars Tech's turn to bang the IPv4 exhaustion drum

[Alain Durand <alain_durand () cable comcast com>]

On 8/19/08 1:50 PM, "sthaug () nethelp no" <sthaug () nethelp no> wrote:

> > In practice, many routers require the packet to go twice in the hardware if
> > the prefix length is > 64 bits, so even though it is a total waste of space,
> > it is not stupid to use /64 for point-to-point links and even for loopbacks!
>
> Could you provide some documentation on this? First I've heard about it.

Ask your favorite router vendor. This has been confirmed to me by at least 3
major one we use.

 - Alain.