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Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links
From: Tim Durack <tdurack () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:13:22 -0500
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:06 PM, Mark Smith <nanog () 85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc nosense org> wrote:
On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:15:55 -0500 "TJ" <trejrco () gmail com> wrote:
I didn't realize "human friendly" was even a nominal design consideration, especially as different humans have different tolerances for defining "friendly" :)This from people who can probably do decimal to binary conversion and back again for IPv4 subnetting in their head and are proud of it. Surely IPv6 hex to binary and back again can be the new party trick? :-)
Maybe we can all do this stuff in our head, but I have found removing unnecessary thinking from the equation is useful for those "3am" moments. Given that I am assigning a /48 to a site anyway, and 65k /64s is "more than I will ever need", does it really matter if the site-specific numbering plan isn't ruthlessly efficient? -- Tim:> Sent from Brooklyn, NY, United States
Current thread:
- Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links, (continued)
- Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links Ryan Harden (Jan 25)
- Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links Tim Durack (Jan 25)
- Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links Nathan Ward (Jan 25)
- Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links Tim Durack (Jan 26)
- Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links Mark Smith (Jan 25)
- RE: Using /126 for IPv6 router links TJ (Jan 25)
- Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links Kevin Oberman (Jan 25)
- Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links Mark Smith (Jan 25)
- Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links Jim Burwell (Jan 25)
- RE: Using /126 for IPv6 router links TJ (Jan 26)
- Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links Tim Durack (Jan 26)
- Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links Mark Smith (Jan 26)
- Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links Christopher Morrow (Jan 26)
- Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links Mark Smith (Jan 26)
- Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links Mark Andrews (Jan 26)
- Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links Randy Bush (Jan 27)
- Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links Owen DeLong (Jan 27)
- Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links Mark Smith (Jan 27)
- Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links Mark Smith (Jan 27)
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- Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links Randy Bush (Jan 27)
- Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links Mark Andrews (Jan 27)