On Jun 9, 2011, at 7:02 AM, Jack Bates wrote: > On 6/9/2011 1:58 AM, Aftab Siddiqui wrote: >> Still that doesn't give any reason to provide /112 for point to point >> connectivitiy. Seriously, I'm peering with a transit provider with /126 and >> when I asked for a reason they said, ease of management. How come Subnetting >> /32 to /126 is ease of management??.... thats quite difficult to understand. >> This debate is there fore quite a long time but everytime it pops up I >> feel so uncomfortable with this granular subnetting. > > Some networks prefer a uniform numbering scheme. /112 allows for reasonable > addressing needs on a circuit. In addition, while Ethernet is often used in a > point-to-point access circuit, such layouts may change and renumbering would > be annoying. > > Finally, having chunks 4-7 define the circuit and chunk 8 provide the circuit > addressing makes it more human readable and is prone to less mistakes by > those who suck at math.
not to disagree how from my vantage point, it's fairly straight forward to assign a /64 and then deploy as a /127. that might be considered wasteful on the other hand a subnet is a subnet. > > Jack >
