RE: ARIN?

["Derek Elder" <delder () usweb com>]

Not true.  The Roadrunner implementation dynamically allocates addresses via
DHCP and connections to the cable routers are not persistant, but are torn
down when utilization ends...  Otherwise you would need a head-end cable
modem for each home...


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu]On Behalf Of
Andrea Di Lecce
Sent: Friday, November 06, 1998 7:11 PM
To: Brandon Ross; nanog () merit edu
Subject: Re: ARIN?


At 10:40 11/5/98 -0500, Brandon Ross wrote:
> > Looks alot like /14 & change. That would be 256K plus
delegated - 210K
users
> > Hey, your right, not a bad packing ratio.  Hows yours?  :)
>
> How's 2 /16's & change, 128k addresses - 455k users.  I think
I win.  (In
> an effort to fully disclose, about 20% of those users are on wholesale
> dialup providers).


Cable modem subscribers normally are not dynamically assigned IPs like
dialups.  Besides, they are advertised as a constant
connection, and a lot
of people use it as such.



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