IPv6 Default Allocation - What size allocation for Loopback Address

Roland Dobbins rdobbins at arbor.net
Sat Oct 11 06:00:21 UTC 2014


On Oct 11, 2014, at 12:41 PM, Faisal Imtiaz <faisal at snappytelecom.net> wrote:

> For Router Loopback Address .... what is wisdom in allocating a /64 vs /128 ?

In the BCOP, this is noted so that those who suboptimally address their p-t-p links with /64s can be consistently suboptimal by doing the same with their loopbacks, so that *all* their interfaces are sinkholes.  

But the BCOP also talks about /128s.

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Roland Dobbins <rdobbins at arbor.net> // <http://www.arbornetworks.com>

                   Equo ne credite, Teucri.

    		   	  -- Laocoön




More information about the NANOG mailing list