North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: It's Ars Tech's turn to bang the IPv4 exhaustion drum
On 8/19/08 1:50 PM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: >> In practice, many routers require the packet to go twice in the hardware if >> the prefix length is > 64 bits, so even though it is a total waste of space, >> it is not stupid to use /64 for point-to-point links and even for loopbacks! > > Could you provide some documentation on this? First I've heard about it. Ask your favorite router vendor. This has been confirmed to me by at least 3 major one we use. - Alain.
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