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 > > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss