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? :)
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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
On Tue, Dec 23, 1997 at 12:03:48PM -0600, Bono, Vinny (CAP, ITS, US) 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.).
Um, I'm sorry, Vinny; there's factual information in this posting. Obviously, you meant to send it somewhere else besides NANOG. Cheers, -- jr 'closed captioned for the irony impaired' a -- Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com Member of the Technical Staff Unsolicited Commercial Emailers Sued The Suncoast Freenet "Two words: Darth Doogie." -- Jason Colby, Tampa Bay, Florida on alt.fan.heinlein +1 813 790 7592
All acquired companies. Does that include the /18 of MAI Network Services since that was acquired by GE as well? On Tue, 23 Dec 1997, Bono, Vinny (CAP, ITS, US) 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 - P.800.311.4219*C.703.867.4357 cameo.d.wood
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