Cox dropping At Home

[Michael F. March]

Oops, yer right.. The *used* to have the entire
block long ago.


> At 09:33 AM 9/2/01 -0700, Michael F. March wrote:
> >I wonder how all the cable operators that drop @home are going to going
to
> >get a bunch of new IP addresses? From what I understand, @home owns the
> >24.X.X.X class A that all the @home subscribers use now.
>
> That isn't accurate. In reality, @Home has only a small portion of the
24/8
> [1] block. Other broadband providers also have assignments of space within
> the 24/8 block. (Local example: Sprint Broadband, for instance, has
24.221/16.)
>
> Given that the bulk of the infrastructure is DHCP, it is a relatively
> trivial matter to re-address subscribers.
>
> jas
>
> [1] whois -h whois.arin.net ATHOME
> [whois.arin.net]
> @Home Network (NETBLK-ATHOME)   ATHOME                24.0.0.0 -
24.23.255.255
>
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