The Never-Ending IPv6 Loopback Prefix Saga

Remember the sage advice to simplify your life and use the IPv6 /64 prefixes everywhere? Not only does it make your life simpler (and wastes immesuarably less address space than the crazy "let's assign /64 to every device " stupidity), it also reduces the hardware requirements in your high-speed routers layer-3 switches. You see, doing lookups on 64 bits uses half the silicon it takes to do…