Hello all,

RFC2373 (addrarch) defines Subnet-Router Anycast address:

---
2.6.1 Required Anycast Address

   The Subnet-Router anycast address is predefined.  Its format is as
   follows:

   |                         n bits                 |   128-n bits   |
   +------------------------------------------------+----------------+
   |                   subnet prefix                | 00000000000000 |
   +------------------------------------------------+----------------+
[...]
   Packets sent to the Subnet-Router anycast address will be delivered
   to one router on the subnet.  All routers are required to support the
   Subnet-Router anycast addresses for the subnets which they have
   interfaces.
---

In practise this means that /127 prefix length must not be used in
point-to-point links, because then the other end would always have to
configure the subnet router anycast address as its _ipv6 address_.  This
is bad because one router of the two would respond to it (depending on
DAD), not necessarily the one which configured it.  Not nice.

Example: 3ffe:ffff::2/127 configured for router A, and 3ffe:ffff::3/127 
for router B.  3ffe:ffff::2 is also subnet-router anycast address, 
which router B should also recognize.

Why everything still works:  very few implementations do implement 
subnet-router anycast addresses.

Recommendation: /64 or /126 for Point-to-point links.

Another alternative: no subnet-router anycast address for those subnets 
where prefix >64 bits. Caveat: we've worked hard not to hardcode 64 in too 
many places..

Or is there something I've missed?

If this would use a more "formal" approach, I could write a 2-page 
informational I-D of this (or more generally, on choosing p-t-p prefix 
length) I suppose.

-- 
Pekka Savola                 "Tell me of difficulties surmounted,
Netcore Oy                   not those you stumble over and fall"
Systems. Networks. Security.  -- Robert Jordan: A Crown of Swords

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