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Re: Stupid Ipv6 question...


From: James <haesu () towardex com>
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 16:51:34 -0500


On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 12:25:10PM -0500, Leo Bicknell wrote:
FWIW, my test networks have always been configured with /126's, and
have never had an issue.

With the exception of auto-configuration, I have yet to see any
IPv6 gear that cares about prefix length.  Configuring a /1 to a
/128 seems to work just fine.  If anyone knows of gear imposing
narrower limits on what can be configured I'd be facinated to know
about them.

I am seeing the same here. We mostly use /64 as p2p links in 30071, and
also have /127's and /126's and even some /112's with legacy peers.
No problems exhibited in all cases.

But that still doesn't change the fact that /64 is recommended minimum
subnet size. :) Then again IPv6 gives us lot of *subnets* before we even
talk about gazillion amount of hosts ;)

-J

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