IPv6 Default Allocation - What size allocation are you giving out

Thu Oct 9 21:18:33 UTC 2014

On Oct 10, 2014, at 4:13 AM, Baldur Norddahl <baldur.norddahl at gmail.com> wrote:

> My colleges wanted to completely drop using public IP addressing in the infrastructure.

Your colleagues are wrong.  Again, see RFC6752.

> I am wondering if all the nay sayers would not agree that is it better to have a single public loopback address shared between all my interfaces, than to go with private addressing completely?

This is a false dichotomy.

> Because frankly, that is the alternative.

It isn't the only alternative.  The *optimal* alternative is to use publicly-routable link addresses, and then protect your infrastructure using iACLs, GTSM, CoPP, et. al.

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