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Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links
From: David Barak <thegameiam () yahoo com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 07:56:49 -0800 (PST)
----- Original Message ---- From: Dale W. Carder dwcarder () wisc edu On Jan 27, 2010, at 3:19 PM, Igor Gashinsky wrote:
you face 2 major issues with not using /127 for PtP-type circuits:1) ping-ponging of packets on Sonet/SDH links
Following this, IPv4 /30 would have the same problem vs /31?
No, because IPv4 has the concept of Broadcast, while IPv6 does not. Remotely sending packets to an IPv4 broadcast address is a "directed broadcast" and that is generally denied by default on modern kit.
2) ping sweep of deathTake the same assumption for addressing as above, and now ping sweep 2001:db8::/64... if the link is ethernet, well, hope you didn't have any important arp entries that the router actually> needed to learn.
Wouldn't this affect *all* /64's configured on a router, not just point to point links? Time for glean rate limiting.
This is, of course, one of the reasons why some of us didn't like the ultra-mega-mega ranges used to address handfuls of hosts, but that ship sailed long ago. David Barak Need Geek Rock? Try The Franchise: http://www.listentothefranchise.com
Current thread:
- Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links, (continued)
- Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links Steve Bertrand (Jan 26)
- Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links Grzegorz Janoszka (Jan 27)
- RE: Using /126 for IPv6 router links TJ (Jan 27)
- RE: Using /126 for IPv6 router links Pekka Savola (Jan 26)
- Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links Mark Smith (Jan 26)
- Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links Jim Burwell (Jan 27)
- RE: Using /126 for IPv6 router links Igor Gashinsky (Jan 27)
- Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links Steve Bertrand (Jan 27)
- Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links Igor Gashinsky (Jan 27)
- Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links Dale W. Carder (Jan 27)
- Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links David Barak (Jan 28)
- Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links Igor Gashinsky (Jan 28)
- Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links Bill Stewart (Jan 29)
- Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links Leo Bicknell (Jan 25)
- Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links Owen DeLong (Jan 25)
- Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links Christopher Morrow (Jan 25)
- Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links Mark Smith (Jan 26)
- Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links David Barak (Jan 26)
- Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links Mark Smith (Jan 26)
- Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links Grzegorz Janoszka (Jan 26)
- Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links Owen DeLong (Jan 26)