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[ih] Origin of the loopback interface
- Subject: [ih] Origin of the loopback interface
- From: cloos at jhcloos.com (James Cloos)
- Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2017 14:26:25 -0400
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]> (John Levine's message of "22 Oct 2017 15:49:12 -0000")
- References: <[email protected]>
>>>>> "JL" == John Levine <johnl at iecc.com> writes:
JL> It seems to me that having a single loopback address rather than at
JL> least a /64 is one of the more inexplicable misfeatures of IPv6.
I always disliked that, too. But we *can* use ::7f00:0000/104.
The only downside(?) is that assigning one address therein does not
automatically make the rest of the /104 work.
-JimC
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