Use of IPv6 /127 prefixes

Tue May 1 17:37:07 UTC 2001

On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 02:33:04AM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 18:00:23 PDT, Mike Leber <mleber at he.net>  said:
> > Why do /127s work for point to point links?
> 
> Because a point-to-point has no *real* concept of "address" other
> than "my end" and "your end".  There was a recent RFC regarding the
> use of /31's in IPv4 space that relied on the same logic.

RFC3021