On Oct 9, 2014, at 11:34 AM, Baldur Norddahl <baldur.nordd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9 October 2014 19:55, Richard Hicks <richard.hi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> The BCOP specfically addresses this in 4b: >> " *b. Point-to-point links should be allocated a /64 and configured with a >> /126 or /127*" >> > > Why do people assign addresses to point-to-point links at all? You can just > use a host /128 route to the loopback address of the peer. Saves you the > hassle of coming up with new addresses for every link. Same trick works for > IPv4 too. > > Regards, > > Baldur <SARCASM> And it makes your trace-routes across parallel links oh so easy to identify which of them is at fault for the packet loss, too. </SARCASM> There are a number of good technical reasons to want distinct addresses on point to point links. Owen
