Stupid Ipv6 question...

Crist Clark crist.clark at globalstar.com
Fri Nov 19 18:11:36 UTC 2004


Lars Erik Gullerud wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 16:36, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
> 
> 
>>/127 prefixes are assumed for point-to-point links, and presumably an 
>>organization will divide up a single /64 for all ptp links -- unless they 
>>have more than 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 of them.
> 
> 
> While that would seem logical for most engineers, used to /30 or /31 ptp
> links in IPv4 (myself included)

Aren't most engineers used to the fact that point-to-point links are
not broadcast links and therefore the concept of a network/netmask for
the interface is somewhat useless? In addition, link-local addressing
eliminates many situations where you need to allocate tiny blocks for
p2p links.
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Crist J. Clark                               crist.clark at globalstar.com
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