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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