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Re: ARIN?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Ross)
Thu Nov 5 11:03:10 1998

Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 10:40:38 -0500 (EST)
From: Brandon Ross <bross@mindspring.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199811051243.EAA02845@vacation.karoshi.com>

On Thu, 5 Nov 1998 bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:

> > BTW, their October 13, 1998 press release says they have 210K users.
> > Their /8 has 16,777,216 IP addresses give or take a few hundred
> > thousand.  Not a bad packing ratio...
> 
> 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).

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