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Re: Use of IPv6 /127 prefixes

  • From: Dwight A. Ernest
  • Date: Tue May 01 13:42:35 2001 
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 02:33:04AM -0400, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 18:00:23 PDT, Mike Leber <[email protected]>  said:
> > Why do /127s work for point to point links?
> 
> Because a point-to-point has no *real* concept of "address" other
> than "my end" and "your end".  There was a recent RFC regarding the
> use of /31's in IPv4 space that relied on the same logic.

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