RE: Whoa; the 3 network?

[Eric Germann <ekgermann () cctec com>]

If you're in the process of renumbering, why not renumber into 10/8?  Does
Jane Pauley need her own gloabally routable IP address?  Number of
employees <> number of addresses.  

I suppose if you think about it, ping flooding Tom Brokaw's teleprompter
during the Nightly News would be kind of cool.  Of course, this could be
the spiked eggnog talking too....

Happy Holidays,

Eric


At 12:03 PM 12/23/97 -0600, you wrote:
> Well, GE is the largest corporation in the world.  The total employees
> in all seven divisions and their components is just over 1.7 million.
> That is a lot.  Add in all the IP devices in NBC's network alone and
> you've got a huge number of justifiable space right there.  Further,
> they, uh sorry, we, :-)  are renumbering all acquired companies into the
> 3.0.0.0/8 range and returning the historic class B's (i.e. Ameridata,
> Bodan, etc.).  
>
> Vincent J. Bono
> Comstor Corporation
> A GE Capital Service Company
>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:        Adam Rothschild [SMTP:asr () millburn net]
> > Sent:        Tuesday, December 23, 1997 7:09 AM
> > To:  Alex Rubenstein
> > Cc:  nanog () merit edu
> > Subject:     Re: Whoa; the 3 network?
> >
> > Funky discovery...  question is, why does GE need such massive addr
> > space?
> > :)
> >
> > -=asr
> >
> > On Tue, 23 Dec 1997, Alex Rubenstein wrote:
> >
> > > Maybe I should be sleeping rather than examining BGP tables, but:
> > >
> > >
> > > whi4#sho ip bgp 3.156.20.0
> > > BGP routing table entry for 3.156.20.0/24, version 449977
> > > Paths: (1 available, best #1, advertised over IBGP)
> > >   7372 701 3561 1221
> > >     207.99.5.196 from 207.99.5.196 (208.210.32.17)
> > >       Origin incomplete, localpref 500, valid, external, best
> > >       Community: 666
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > traceroute to 3.156.20.1 (3.156.20.1), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
> > > .
> > > .
> > >  5  telstra.SanFrancisco.mci.net (166.48.19.250)  332.535 ms
> > 538.669 ms 365.308 ms
> > >  6  Fddi0-0.pad-core1.Sydney.telstra.net (139.130.249.226)  290.266
> > ms 317.40 ms  290.209 ms
> > >  7  Hssi6-0.lon-core1.Melbourne.telstra.net (139.130.249.214)
> > 350.701 ms 339.90 ms  439.199 ms
> > >  8  Fddi0-0.lon11.Melbourne.telstra.net (139.130.239.234)  419.291
> > ms 424.309 ms  283.243 ms
> > >  9  power2.lnk.telstra.net (139.130.49.114)  403.623 ms  353.911 ms
> > 307.750 ms
> > > 10  203.36.142.146 (203.36.142.146)  348.695 ms  310.482 ms  301.917
> > ms
> > > [root@newspeer1 /root]# whois 3.0.0.0  
> > > General Electric Company (NET-GE-INTERNET)
> > >    One Independence Way
> > >    Princeton, NJ  08540
> > >
> > >    Netname: GE-INTERNET
> > >    Netnumber: 3.0.0.0


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