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RE: Using /126 for IPv6 router links


From: Pekka Savola <pekkas () netcore fi>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:47:35 +0200 (EET)

On Tue, 26 Jan 2010, Igor Gashinsky wrote:
Matt meant "reserve/assign a /64 for each PtP link, but only configure the
first */127* of the link", as that's the only way to fully mitigate the
scanning-type attacks (with a /126, there is still the possibility of
ping-pong on a p-t-p interface) w/o using extensive ACLs..

Anyways, that's what worked for us, and, as always, YMMV...

That's still relying on the fact that your vendor won't implement subnet-router anycast address and turn it on by default. That would mess up the first address of the link. But I suppose those would be pretty big ifs.

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