Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

On Jan 23, 2010, at 4:52 AM, Mathias Seiler wrote:

> Hi 
>
> In reference to the discussion about /31 for router links, I d'like to know what is your experience with IPv6 in this 
> regard.
>
> I use a /126 if possible but have also configured one /64 just for the link between two routers. This works great but 
> when I think that I'm wasting 2^64 - 2 addresses here it feels plain wrong.
>
> So what do you think? Good? Bad? Ugly? /127 ? ;)
Use the /64... It's OK... IPv6 was designed with that in mind.

64 bits is enough networks that if each network was an almond M&M, you would be able to fill all of the
great lakes with M&Ms before you ran out of /64s.

Owen

> Cheers
>
> Mathias Seiler
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