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Okay, sure, on hosts you're only going to see /64s, but unless I'm seriously misunderstanding something, anyone dealing with route aggregation is going to have
by danellis 11y ago
Okay, sure, on hosts you're only going to see /64s, but unless I'm seriously misunderstanding something, anyone dealing with route aggregation is going to have to deal with smaller prefixes.
And even just talking about "this is global unicast space", "this is 6to4 space" and "this is link local space" involves small prefixes. So, for example, you still need to do the same mental juggling to know that 2000::/3 is 2000... to 3fff....
- ghshephard 11y agoAgreed. You can't get away from network blocks at the administrative routing level. But, at least life is a bit easier by making more common use of /48s and /32s - I.E. 2001:1868::/32 being 2001:1868:0000:0000::/64 -> 2001:1868:FFFF:FFFF::/64. Thankfully, the 100x more common task of configuring an interface, will always be a /64.