At 09:33 AM 9/2/01 -0700, Michael F. March wrote:
>I wonder how all the cable operators that drop @home are going to going to 
>get a bunch of new IP addresses? From what I understand, @home owns the 
>24.X.X.X class A that all the @home subscribers use now.

That isn't accurate. In reality, @Home has only a small portion of the 24/8 
[1] block. Other broadband providers also have assignments of space within 
the 24/8 block. (Local example: Sprint Broadband, for instance, has 24.221/16.)

Given that the bulk of the infrastructure is DHCP, it is a relatively 
trivial matter to re-address subscribers.

jas

[1] whois -h whois.arin.net ATHOME
[whois.arin.net]
@Home Network (NETBLK-ATHOME)   ATHOME                24.0.0.0 - 24.23.255.255