Re: ping-pong phenomenon with p2p links & /127 prefixes

[Ole Troan <ot@cisco.com>]

On Aug 16, 2010, at 20:34 , Christopher Morrow wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Ole Troan <ot@cisco.com> wrote:
> 
>> one could equally just make a convention to use link-locals with fe80::1 and fe80::2
>> and /128s on each side if one needed global addresses for sources to traceroute etc.
> 
> no, ping/monitoring/data-collection fails in this case. (or needs to
> be overhauled to collect/test/monitor in new/fun ways)


how & why? please, give a more specific example.

cheers,
Ole