IP4 Space
Antonio Querubin
tony at lava.net
Thu Mar 4 20:10:34 UTC 2010
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Thomas Magill wrote:
> 1. Why don't providers use /31 addresses for P2P links? This
> works fine per rfc 3021 but nobody seems to believe it or use it. Are
> there any major manufacturers out there that do not support it?
>
> 2. Longer than /24 prefixes in global BGP table. The most obvious
> answer is that some hardware may not handle it... How is that hardware
> going to handle an IP6 table then? I have had several occasions where
> functionally I needed to advertise for different sites but only needed
> 20-30 addresses which is a complete waste of a /24. How hard would it
> be to start allowing /25s when compared to trying to roll out IP6?
I think these qualify to be in an IPv6 FAQ if they're not already :)
Antonio Querubin
808-545-5282 x3003
e-mail/xmpp: tony at lava.net
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