Re: IPv6 Default Allocation - What size allocation are you giving out

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

On Oct 9, 2014, at 11:34 AM, Baldur Norddahl <baldur.norddahl () gmail com> wrote:

> On 9 October 2014 19:55, Richard Hicks <richard.hicks () gmail com> wrote:
>
> > The BCOP specfically addresses this in 4b:
> > " *b. Point-to-point links should be allocated a /64 and configured with a
> > /126 or /127*"
>
> Why do people assign addresses to point-to-point links at all? You can just
> use a host /128 route to the loopback address of the peer. Saves you the
> hassle of coming up with new addresses for every link. Same trick works for
> IPv4 too.
>
> Regards,
>
> Baldur

<SARCASM>

And it makes your trace-routes across parallel links oh so easy to identify which of them is at fault for the packet 
loss, too.

</SARCASM>

There are a number of good technical reasons to want distinct addresses on point to point links.

Owen