/127 between routers?

Truman Boyes truman at suspicious.org
Sat Jan 9 03:40:28 CET 2010


Juniper is definitely *not* recommending avoiding /64s. Do you have a pointer to where this information came from? I have performed extensive testing of IPv6 forwarding/routing and /64's work just fine.

Truman


On 6/01/2010, at 2:23 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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