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

[Seiichi Kawamura <kawamucho@mesh.ad.jp>]

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Jared Mauch wrote:
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> Jared Mauch
> 
> On Aug 16, 2010, at 5:01 PM, Ole Troan <ot@cisco.com> wrote:
> 
>>>>> please ping my router, it's interface address is: fe80::20e:cff:fe5c:b001/64
>>>>>
>>>>> my monitoring system can't ping this to ensure liveness of the
>>>>> interface either :(
>>>> but they can ping whatever global /128 you put on that interface, so why doesn't that solve the problems?
>>> Because you are then using one set of addresses for protool peerings
>>> and another one for global ping - thus making life more complicated
>>> for the operator.
>> is that any more "complicated" (I don't quite understand that argument) than using IS-IS?
>>
> 
> Yes. 

yes. I tried something close to it 5 years ago and it was hell.

Regards,
Seiichi
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