They'll set the lease expiration to 2am a couple weeks in the
future, and when it gets renewed, it will be another IP address
on another block. Been there, done that, twice. If you go down
for a couple hours, so what? A couple hours in a week's time is
still 98.8% uptime, but wait - they don't a Service Level Agreement,
do they?
Also, the 24 Class A block is not owned by @home - they have a
piece of it, but so does Time Warner (AKA Road Runner) and others:
Netname: ATHOME Netblock: 24.0.0.0 - 24.23.255.255
Netname: ROAD-RUNNER-1 Netblock: 24.24.0.0 - 24.29.255.255
Netname: M1-MIDWESTDETROIT-1 Netblock: 24.30.0.0 - 24.30.95.255
Netname: M1-WEST-1 Netblock: 24.30.96.0 - 24.30.127.25
Netname: ROAD-RUNNER-1B Netblock: 24.30.128.0 - 24.30.223.255
Netname: M1-RICHMOND-1 Netblock: 24.30.224.0 - 24.30.255.255
Netname: M1-MN-1 Netblock: 24.31.0.0 - 24.31.31.255
etc, ad naseum
That's where CIDR comes in. The notion of address classing is
obsolete, so the old 24 Class A clock was sliced up. More IP
addresses to dole out.
Regards,
George
"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.
>
> > Cox provides the wiring to the home, @Home provided the "service" such
> > as name servers, e-mail (joke that that was), news services, account
> > management, and portal (anyone who didn't know how to change their
> > default home page was stuck with that crap).
> >
> > Nathan England wrote:
> > >
> > > I just read an article on the NYTime site about Cox and Comcast may drop
> > > the At Home internet service.
> > > I was under the assumption that @Home was owned by cox and they
> > > controlled all the servers.
> > > So now I'm quite confused. What exactley does cox do? They provide
> > > cable tv and what? No internet services?
> > >
> > > http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/01/technology/01WEB.html
> > >
> > > Can someone explain this to me?
> > >
> > > nathan
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