What's the point of that? Is it to allow yourself to migrate back to a
/64 in the event the /127 causes issues?

CJ

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On Sep 13, 2012, at 10:16 AM, Marko Milivojevic <[email protected]> wrote:

> There are some good reasons for it. The recommendation is still to assign /64 
> blocks for p2p links, but configure them as /127.
>
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> On Sep 12, 2012, at 14:22, Bal Birdy <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Marko which rfc references /127 recommendation? From my understanding /64 
>> are required to support NDP features, given you only have ie neighbor this 
>> is a not pointless. So is this why they have moved away from the hard and 
>> fast /64 everywhere rule.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> On Sep 13, 2012 7:17 AM, "Marko Milivojevic" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I'm curious - why would you use /126 instead of RFC-recommended /127?
>>
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>> Marko Milivojevic - CCIE #18427 (SP R&S)
>> Senior CCIE Instructor - IPexpert
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 7:30 AM, Max Kamali <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Bal,
>>>
>>> I use /126s for point to point links (only) in production and they work just
>>> fine. Tuscany networks created a fantastic free IPv6 subnet calculator, aka
>>> TN IPv6 calculator.
>>>
>>> -max
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: [email protected]
>>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bal Birdy
>>> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 3:41 AM
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> Subject: [OSL | CCIE_RS] Stupid question time - IPV6 VLSM
>>>
>>> Ok I know that it's stipulated that IPv6 should be a /64, and never really
>>> change, but I came across some slides talking about using /126 or /127s for
>>> point to point links (which sparked a discussion at work). Thinking along
>>> the lines of the /30 concept with IPv4, for arguments sake, if I wanted to
>>> work out what IP addresses I can manually configure on either end of my p2p
>>> link, that's using IPv6, am I right in saying I use the same approach as
>>> with IPv4 for working out the IP addresses.
>>>
>>> So if I say a /126 is - 1111111111111100 in binary. The last two bits give
>>> me networks of 0,4,8 and so on. with usable ip's of 1,2 and 3. Now the 3
>>> comes into play as there's no concept of broadcast in IPv6 (!?), so why do
>>> we need the broadcast IP as previously required for IPv4???
>>>
>>> Is this technically correct?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Bal
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