Point-to-point /64

Arturo Servin arturo.servin at gmail.com
Sat Jun 1 22:24:37 CEST 2013


	Got it.

	I though it was something different.

	Suppose now that I am very stubborn and I do not want to configure
/128, /127, /126, /112, /96 or any other longer prefix that /64 (even
when a /112 may let me growth in hosts without renumbering).

	So far I know that I could put a FW to protect the links, that works in
some places. Where not, probably I should need to add some ACLs to the
router (which I would not be a fan of).

	Anything else to protect the link?


Thanks!
.as

On 6/1/13 2:46 PM, Jeroen Massar wrote:
> On 2013-06-01 10:41, Arturo Servin wrote:
> [..]
>>> If you are protecting against something scanning the rest of the /64
>>> where for instance only ::1 and ::2 are configured, you have two options:
>>>  - actually use /128 routes
>>
>> What do you mean about /128 routes?
> 
> You configure 2001:db8:abcd:1234::1/128 on A, and then configure
> 2001:db8:abcd:1234::2/128 on B.
> 
> On A you route 2001:db8:abcd:1234::2/128 to the PtP interface,
> on B you route 2001:db8:abcd:1234::1/128 to the PtP interface.
> 
> True Point-To-Point, with room to grow. Note that using a /127 might
> seem logical, it does not work due to the subnet-anycast address.
> 
> Indeed, you 'lose' the rest of the /64, but when the time comes that you
> convert it to a multi-point link one can just add extra /128s in there.
> 
> Greets,
>  Jeroen
> 


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