On Oct 9, 2014, at 11:34 AM, Baldur Norddahl <baldur.norddahl@gmail.com> wrote:
On 9 October 2014 19:55, Richard Hicks <richard.hicks@gmail.com> wrote:
The BCOP specfically addresses this in 4b: " *b. Point-to-point links should be allocated a /64 and configured with a /126 or /127*"
Why do people assign addresses to point-to-point links at all? You can just use a host /128 route to the loopback address of the peer. Saves you the hassle of coming up with new addresses for every link. Same trick works for IPv4 too.
Regards,
Baldur
<SARCASM> And it makes your trace-routes across parallel links oh so easy to identify which of them is at fault for the packet loss, too. </SARCASM> There are a number of good technical reasons to want distinct addresses on point to point links. Owen