William Allen Simpson wrote:
When I complain, I prefer to suggest alternatives. In this case, the two that come to mind are:
1) unnumbered interfaces. I've used these with PPP for years, but as I remember, there was a problem with Ciscos. Has this been fixed?
I've used them in several deployments, and they work just fine. You do need at least one local interface with a real, public address to do this. When configuring the unnumbered interface, you specify which other interface (e.g. an Ethernet, or probably even a loopback) to use for IP address when needed (for ICMP messages and such).
2) host routes. Rather than creating /30 subnets for links (wasting 2 addresses for each 2 used on a link), go all the way and use /32 for each address. This make the local routing table a bit bigger, but the entries are rarely used, and aggregated at the boundaries.
Thoughts?
Isn't there a link around somewhere on this?
What about a link for bogon filters to use at boundaries?
WSimpson@UMich.edu Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32
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