On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Andrea Di Lecce wrote:
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.
And I have a whole lot of dialup users that would love to have a static IP so they can more easily run servers and such. Several years ago when our users were staticly addressed, ARIN requested that we move to dynamic addressing. Why do my users have to be dynamically addressed but @home's do not? I do want to let everyone know that I really don't have any problem with @home. They're a business like any other, and I would do the same thing if I had the opportunity. The point here is that we did not have that opportunity, we were forced to use dynamic addressing while @home was basically given enough address space to statically address their users. Brandon Ross Network Engineering 404-815-0770 800-719-4664 Director, Network Engineering, MindSpring Ent., Inc. info@mindspring.com ICQ: 2269442 Stop Smurf attacks! Configure your router interfaces to block directed broadcasts. See http://www.quadrunner.com/~chuegen/smurf.cgi for details.