[140877] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Rogers Canada using 7.0.0.0/8 for internal address space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Tue May 24 11:43:47 2011
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimctc9DJ+2z0Urehg6JQwgRqSLBdA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 08:42:45 -0700
To: Rubens Kuhl <rubensk@gmail.com>
Cc: Nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On May 24, 2011, at 7:56 AM, Rubens Kuhl wrote:
> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Mark Farina <markfarina76@gmail.com> =
wrote:
>> As of April 27th I have started to receive dhcp broadcast requests
>> originating from the 7.0.0.0/8 network. Based on MAC addresses, it
>> seems that this is communication between the Rogers border/node
>> hardware (MAC assigned to Cisco) and my Motorola cable modem.
>>=20
>> Is the DoD releasing this range to Rogers? Or has Rogers squatted on
>> this space due to exhaustion of their 10/8 use? We've seen other
>> vendors and ISP squat on previously unused ranges (the 1/8 or 5/8s).
>> Could they not wrap their internal cable modem to node chatter in
>> IPv6, instead of using assigned address space?
>=20
> Squatting resources from an organization that can deploy F/A-18
> Hornets, F/A-22 Raptors, Predator drones or Navy SEALs is probably bad
> to your health.
It's been a while since we fought a war with canada.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_War
>=20
> Rubens
>=20
