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Lars Erik Utsi Gullerud
lerik at nolink.net
Thu May 26 10:50:14 CEST 2011
On 26.05.2011 10:45, Lars Erik Utsi Gullerud wrote: > The reasoning behind /124 (rather than e.g. /127) for us, is simply to > make addressing more "human-readable" as well as simpler to manage in > terms of reverse DNS. Using /124 you always end up on a > "human-friendly" boundary so your networks are xx::10/124, xx::20/124, > xx::30/124 and so on, and you can then assign hosts that are always > like xx::10:1/124 + xx::10:2/124 (rather than having your tech staff > trying to sort out hexadecimal stuff in their heads). This also fits > very nicely with nibble addressing in ip6.arpa as every network is its > own "nibble". I believe someone wrote an I-D about using /124s a while > back, but my memory isn't what it used to be... Correcting myself here (not enough coffee yet) - the host addresses should of course be xx::11/124 and xx::12/124 and so on in the text above. :) Regards, Lars Erik
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