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Re: Subject: Confirming consensus on adopting draft-carpenter-6man-why64

"Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net> Sat, 15 March 2014 18:32 UTC

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Subject: Re: Subject: Confirming consensus on adopting draft-carpenter-6man-why64
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On 15 Mar 2014, at 07:38 , Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> wrote:

>> So what about ::1/128? What is the history of loopback being /128 rather than /64?
> 
> I suspect that it was given a /128 without much thought, since the loopback
> address for IPv4 was a /32. I can't be bothered to search the old
> documents before breakfast, but I expect this was done before the IID
> length changed from 48 to 64.

Huh?

I thought loopback was 127.1/8 and a quick check on a few different OSes shows that this is the way they implement (configure) it by default.

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