Subnetting Practices

Sascha Lenz slz at baycix.de
Mon Jul 16 18:49:18 CEST 2007


Hi,

Roland Dobbins schrieb:
> 
> On Jul 16, 2007, at 8:53 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> 
>> You're still not being clear.
> 
> OK.  My concerns are that using overly large subnets on p2p links a) is 
> wasteful and b) could be a DoS vector, especially on software-based 
> routers.

Repeating a) over and over is not going to make it anymore relevant in 
the big picture :-)

You should stick to b), since that one makes sense as an argument 
against /64 (or anything similar "big") on P2P links.

...my 0.02EUR, using /112s on most, /126 on some P2P links since the 
dawn of 6Bone

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