[nsp] ipv6 address ::X/128 on Cisco router

[Ryan O'Connell]

Gert Doering wrote:

>Hi,
>
>On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 12:11:08PM +0300, Mihai CHELARU wrote:
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>>On Friday 18 June 2004 01:00, Gert Doering wrote:
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>>>>isn't a single address perfect for a loopback interface?
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>>>It is.  But not from the prefix "0".  You need to have some real
>>>addresses there, and "0" is not (as of today).
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>>>
>>::1/128 should be accepted as it's the loopback address. 
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>>
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>Cisco routers never had an "127.0.0.1" IPv4 loopback address either.  
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>That's for hosts - what good would it do on a router?
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>

telnet 127.0.0.1 <line number + 2000> on a console router when all 
physical interfaces are down for a start...

(I just assign 10.1.1.1 to loop0, annoyingly it won't let me assign 
127.0.0.1 to loop0...)

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         Ryan O'Connell - CCIE #8174

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