Re: Easily confused...

["Michael Painter" <tvhawaii () shaka com>]

Brielle Bruns wrote:
> On 4/16/11 6:03 PM, Michael Painter wrote:
> > Thanks.  What concerned me was the first hop...22ms. is ~ the distance
> > from Maui to Oahu, but why the Chinese IP?  Cruel joke?
> > I"m using Hawaiian Telcom's ADSL service and that first hop has always
> > been their gateway IP address.
> > Another TCP trace shows the first hop as 123.74.62.128...another CN
> > address.
>
>
> I'm assuming your provider's network engineers (stupidly) assumed
> 123.x.x.x was a good idea for use in a private setup because it hadn't
> been assigned from the global pool (yet).
>
> Wouldn't be the first provider or service to not use proper RFC assigned
> private IP space for their internal networking setup.

Apologies...missed operative word 'internal'.<s>
They are testing IPTV on Oahu in preperation for roll-out, so maybe they renumbered in order to more easily identify the 
segments.(?)