/127 between routers?

Fred Baker fred at cisco.com
Tue Jan 5 16:46:52 CET 2010


That would be surprising, as /64s are normally used on Ethernets.

On Jan 5, 2010, at 7:23 AM, Mark Kamichoff wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 03:30:06PM +0100, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
>> People seem to mostly use /126, /112 or /64 for their p-t-p links.
>
> I've heard rumors that some router vendors (Juniper, others?) are
> actually recommending to /avoid/ using /64s on point-to-point links
> citing possible performance (ASIC?) issues.
>
> Has anyone heard something similar?
>
> - Mark
>
> -- 
> Mark Kamichoff
> prox at prolixium.com
> http://www.prolixium.com/

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