On 13/01/2017 18:09, Karsten Thomann wrote:
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Von: Randy Bush
Gesendet: Freitag, 13. Januar 2017 01:51
An: Brian E Carpenter
Cc: IPv6 List; int-dir(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org; Bob Hinden;
draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis(_dot_)all(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org; IETF
Betreff: Re: Review of draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-06
RFC7421 (which is Informational) calls out RFC 6164 (not 6141!) as an
exception.
To be precise it says:
The de facto length of almost all IPv6 interface identifiers is
therefore 64 bits. The only documented exception is in [RFC6164],
which standardizes 127-bit prefixes for point-to-point links between
routers, among other things, to avoid a loop condition known as the
ping-pong problem.
I would suggest adding a similar exception statement in 4291bis.
just get rid of classful addressing. we went through this
in the '90s.
I can only support this, while /127 is a good exception for ptp links, it's
still useless for small nets with 4-5 IPs like a network between routers and
a Firewall cluster.
Please read RFC 7421. For example
From an early stage, implementations and deployments of IPv6 assumed
the /64 subnet length, even though routing was based on prefixes of
any length.
...
The main practical consequence of the existing specifications is that
deployments in which longer subnet prefixes are used cannot make use
of SLAAC-configured addresses and require either manually configured
addresses or DHCPv6.
Nobody is trying to un-CIDRise IPv6. But the price of not applying the
/64 subnet size is that you lose automatic addressing. The 4291bis text
doesn't yet explain this clearly enough.
Brian