/127 between routers?

Benny Amorsen benny+usenet at amorsen.dk
Thu Jan 7 18:26:08 CET 2010


Mark Smith <nanog at 85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc.nosense.org>
writes:

> History has shown that creating hard boundaries between the network and
> node portion (i.e. Classful addressing) may reduce forwarding
> system flexibility and require mass software/hardware upgrades.

You can't apply a lesson learned when addresses are scarce to a scenario
where addresses are plentiful. I bet we would hear the exact same
concerns if IPv6 addresses were 256-bit.


/Benny



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