Re: IPv6 Address Planning

["Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow () mci com>]

On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:

> On 10-aug-2005, at 2:54, Randy Bush wrote:
>
> > on this side of the puddles, i think most folk use /126s for p2p
> > links.
> > this has been endlessly and loudly debated, but it still seems
> > extremely
> > strange to use 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 addresses for a p2p link.
>
> Well, if you want to be really environmentally conscious, do away
> with that /126 too and just use link-locals, with a single global
> address per router for management and the generation of ICMPs.

and you ping the customer links how? (or did I miss the point of the
link-locals?)