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Re: Assigning /64 but using /127 (was Re: Waste will kill ipv6 too)


From: Octavio Alvarez <octalnanog () alvarezp org>
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2017 12:29:00 -0600

On 12/28/2017 11:39 AM, Owen DeLong wrote:

On Dec 28, 2017, at 09:23 , Octavio Alvarez <octalnanog () alvarezp org> wrote:

On 12/20/2017 12:23 PM, Mike wrote:
On 12/17/2017 08:31 PM, Eric Kuhnke wrote:
Call this the 'shavings', in IPv4 for example, when you assign a P2P
link with a /30, you are using 2 and wasting 2 addresses. But in IPv6,
due to ping-pong and just so many technical manuals and other advices,
you are told to "just use a /64' for your point to points.

Isn't it a /127 nowadays, per RFC 6547 and RFC 6164? I guess the
exception would be if a router does not support it.

Best practice used most places is to assign a /64 and put a /127 on the interfaces.


Thanks for the info. Is this documented somewhere? Is there a
disadvantage in letting many P2P links use different /127 networks
within the same /64?

Best regards,
Octavio.


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