IPv6 Default Allocation - What size allocation for Loopback Address

Sat Oct 11 06:37:28 UTC 2014

On Oct 11, 2014, at 1:33 PM, Faisal Imtiaz <faisal at snappytelecom.net> wrote:

> I am trying to understand what is sub-optimal about doing so...Waste of Ipv6 space ? or some other technical reason ?

It's wasteful of address space, but more importantly, it turns your router into a sinkole.

> (is a /64 address are a 'sinkhole' the only reason ? )

That's a pretty big reason not to use /64s.

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