[6bone] Is minimum allocation /64 now?

[Pekka Savola]

On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 ipv6@cuhk.edu.hk wrote:
> I am sorry that I am a little bit outdated.  I notice that min allocation
> of address space is /48 instead of /64 in the past for IXes.  I have
> also read some old messages that /64 is used because of automatic
> configuration.  But then how about P2P?  Is there a practice to use a
> /64 or /127 for P2P link?  Will it break something if I use prefix
> longer than /64?  Thanks for your advice.

As for P2P links (between routers, I take you mean)..

Don't use /127, but anything between that and /64 is operationally fine.  
Architecturally one should use /64.  We use /112's ourselves.

Read RFC 3627 for more.

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