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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: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Andrea Di Lecce Sent: Friday, November 06, 1998 7:11 PM To: Brandon Ross; [email protected] 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. ************************************************** Andrea Di Lecce (416) 935-5700 [email protected] Network Operations 1 Mount Pleasant Road, Toronto, M4Y 2Y5 **************************************************
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