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RE: What's 16 bits between friends?

<michael.dillon@bt.com> Wed, 19 September 2007 07:45 UTC

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> The loopback /128 is a special case exception because a 
> loopback doesn't ever have more than one node on the "link", 
> nor will there be a router, so fixed and reserved /128 value 
> is a good solution. 

According to RFC 3627 /128 is not a good idea. It should be /126.

--Michael Dillon

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