IPv6 Default Allocation - What size allocation are you giving out

Fri Oct 10 05:25:40 UTC 2014

* Baldur Norddahl

> 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.

Why do you need those host routes?

Most IPv6 IGPs work just fine without global addresses or host routes.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-opsec-lla-only-11

Tore