IPv6 Address Planning

Wed Aug 10 08:17:40 UTC 2005

On 10-aug-2005, at 2:54, Randy Bush wrote:

> on this side of the puddles, i think most folk use /126s for p2p  
> links.
> this has been endlessly and loudly debated, but it still seems  
> extremely
> strange to use 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 addresses for a p2p link.

Well, if you want to be really environmentally conscious, do away  
with that /126 too and just use link-locals, with a single global  
address per router for management and the generation of ICMPs.