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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 20 aug 2008, at 3:31, Randy Bush wrote: matsuzaki-san's preso, i think the copy he will present next week at apops: http://www.attn.jp/presentation/apnic26-maz-ipv6-p2p.pdf He (she?) says packets will ping-pong across the link if they are addressed to an address on the p2p subnet that isn't used. However, this is only true if there is no address resolution on the subnet, which would be the normal mode of operation with IPv4 on p2p links because those links don't have addresses and there is no ARP. With v6 on the other hand, ND can work on all link types and PPP does negotiate an address of sorts. So whether this actually happens on a true point-to-point link is open with IPv6, and if it's a point-to-point ethernet or similar link you only get some neighbor discovery traffic that goes nowhere, not an increase in actual traffic.
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