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Re: Use of IPv6 /127 prefixes

From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 02:33:04 -0400


On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 18:00:23 PDT, Mike Leber <mleber () he net>  said:

Why do /127s work for point to point links?


Because a point-to-point has no *real* concept of "address" other
than "my end" and "your end".  There was a recent RFC regarding the
use of /31's in IPv4 space that relied on the same logic.

                                Valdis Kletnieks
                                Operating Systems Analyst
                                Virginia Tech

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