Re: IPv6 Default Allocation - What size allocation for Loopback Address

2014-10-11 Thread Roland Dobbins
On Oct 11, 2014, at 12:41 PM, Faisal Imtiaz fai...@snappytelecom.net wrote: For Router Loopback Address what is wisdom in allocating a /64 vs /128 ? In the BCOP, this is noted so that those who suboptimally address their p-t-p links with /64s can be consistently suboptimal by doing the

Re: IPv6 Default Allocation - What size allocation for Loopback Address

2014-10-11 Thread Måns Nilsson
Subject: Re: IPv6 Default Allocation - What size allocation for Loopback Address Date: Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 05:41:43AM + Quoting Faisal Imtiaz (fai...@snappytelecom.net): A follow up question on this topic.. For Router Loopback Address what is wisdom in allocating a /64 vs /128 ?

Re: IPv6 Default Allocation - What size allocation for Loopback Address

2014-10-11 Thread Faisal Imtiaz
In the BCOP, this is noted so that those who suboptimally address their p-t-p links with /64s can be consistently suboptimal by doing the same with their loopbacks, I am trying to understand what is sub-optimal about doing so...Waste of Ipv6 space ? or some other technical reason ? (is a /64

Re: IPv6 Default Allocation - What size allocation for Loopback Address

2014-10-11 Thread Roland Dobbins
On Oct 11, 2014, at 1:33 PM, Faisal Imtiaz fai...@snappytelecom.net wrote: I am trying to understand what is sub-optimal about doing so...Waste of Ipv6 space ? or some other technical reason ? It's wasteful of address space, but more importantly, it turns your router into a sinkole. (is a

Re: IPv6 Default Allocation - What size allocation are you giving out

2014-10-11 Thread Lee
On 10/10/14, Tore Anderson t...@fud.no wrote: * Baldur Norddahl 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. Some people think the

Re: IPv6 Default Allocation - What size allocation for Loopback Address

2014-10-11 Thread Frank Habicht
On 10/11/2014 8:41 AM, Faisal Imtiaz wrote: For Router Loopback Address what is wisdom in allocating a /64 vs /128 ? The number of IPs addresses used on them subnets on them loopbacks is as far as I can foresee only one [for each loopback]. So a subnet of size one address should do it. And

Re: astraceroute on MAC

2014-10-11 Thread Mansoor Nathani
Hi Anurag Here is sample output from using the mtr command: the -z flag shows AS Numbers however, I am not sure where they come from or are looked up. mtr can be downloaded : https://code.google.com/p/rudix/downloads/detail?name=mtr-0.82-0.pkg mtr -4z google.com x61 (0.0.0.0)

Re: IPv6 Default Allocation - What size allocation for Loopback Address

2014-10-11 Thread Tim Raphael
From my research, various authorities have recommended that a single /64 be allocated to router loopbacks with /128s assigned on interfaces. This makes a lot of sense to me as (which has been said) there is no other *need* in the foreseeable future to have more than one IP on the loopback -

Re: IPv6 Default Allocation - What size allocation for Loopback Address

2014-10-11 Thread Roland Dobbins
On Oct 11, 2014, at 2:09 PM, Tim Raphael raphael.timo...@gmail.com wrote: From my research, various authorities have recommended that a single /64 be allocated to router loopbacks with /128s assigned on interfaces. Yes, this is what I advocate for loopbacks.

Charter Communications Contact

2014-10-11 Thread N. Max Pierson
Can someone from Charter Communications engineering/support hit me up off list please? Sorry for the noise. Regards, Max

ATT AVPN BGP Communities

2014-10-11 Thread Andrey Khomyakov
paging ATT peeps Does anyone have ATT's AVPN BGP communities reference guide? e.g. 13979:120 to set local_pref to 120 and so on. Thanks in advance! --Andrey