[c-nsp] IPv6 Subnetting - Service Provider

[Bob Snyder]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 04:11:20PM -0400, Paul Stewart wrote:
> Thanks for the replies...
> 
> Yeah, I'm getting various pieces of feedback - I'm going with the /126 for
> point to point and /128 for loopback on core devices at this point.  I don't
> trust the autoconfiguration ideas at this point (call it old school)
> anyways...;)

One issue we ran into was that not all the networking gear we had could support
/126. The vendor's (not Cisco) immature support for IPv6 could only understand
the concept of /128 loopbacks and /64 subnets.

Device in question was a CMTS.

Bob