Point-to-point /64

Ole Troan otroan at employees.org
Sat Jun 1 23:01:02 CEST 2013



On 1 Jun 2013, at 22:56, Jeroen Massar <jeroen at massar.ch> wrote:

> One thing to keep in mind though is that quite some gear is optimized
> upto the first /64 bits, and might use slower paths for longer prefixes,
> thus if one is going to put a lot of /128s in a single /64, thus when
> really stuffing all p2p links in a single /64 or so, it might hurt
> performance on the gear being used. As such, do ask your vendor about
> their limitations.

If you are talking about router to router links, then typicall little traffic is forwarded to any of the link addresses. This should generally not be a concern. 

Ole


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