Re: Static interface routes for IP address on different subnet doesn't send an ARP who-has

[John Nemeth <jnemeth%cue.bc.ca@localhost>]

On Aug 23,  9:40am, David Young wrote:
} On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 12:45:35AM -0700, John Nemeth wrote:
} > On Aug 22,  8:22pm, John Hawkinson wrote:
} > }
} > } It's a pointless waste to blow a /30 on a point-to-point link
} > } if you don't have to. Supporting this is smart.
} > 
} >      Then use a /31.  See RFC 3021
} 
} ISPs don't want to use a /31 because it is also wasteful: to establish
} point-to-point links between the gateway and N customers, you need 2N
} addresses instead of N + 1 addresses.

     Then don't pretend it is point-to-point when it isn't (most
"broadband" technologies aren't truely point-to-point).  And, if
it is truely point-to-point then that's the way it is.  And, 2N is
a heck of a lot better then 4N.

}-- End of excerpt from David Young