Re: Point 2 point IPs between ASes

[Niels Bakker <niels=nanog () bakker net>]

* KShah () primustel ca (Krunal Shah) [Tue 27 Jun 2017, 22:28 CEST]:
> What subnet mask you are people using for point to point IPs between 
> two ASes? Specially with IPv6, We have a transit provider who wants 
> us to use /64 which does not make sense for this purpose. isn’t it 
> recommended to use /127 as per RFC 6164 like /30 and /31 are common 
> for IPv4.

Whatever you want.


> I was thinking, if someone is using RFC7404 for point to point IP 
> between two ASes and establish BGP over link local addresses. This 
> way you have your own IP space on your router and transit provider 
> does not have to allocate IP space for point to point interface 
> between two ASes. In traceroutes you would see only loopback IP 
> address with GUA assigned from your allocated routable address 
> space. Remotely DDoS to this link isn’t possible this way. Thoughts?

If you can protect the loopback IP from DDoS you can equally protect 
linknet IPs.


        -- Niels.