[olug] New COX managed network bad for Linux

[Vincent]

For what it's worth, I spoke to someone inArizona recently who is on the new Cox network.  He only gets a private (10.)
address.  You can get a real address. but it costs more.  I'm not sure how much more though.  On the upside, he said it
dosen't look like there's any bandwidth cap.

Whether you know it or not, Cox has already assigned each of us a private address.
For educational purposes, you can look your 10. ip, along with some other cool info here:

http://tool.coxomaha.net
username:  tech
password:  oma4a!tech

You can look up your info by your modem's MAC address or your internal IP address.
Check it quick, they'll probably change the password as soon as they see extra traffic!
Since it now costs extra to get an additional external address, will they reduce rates since we will no longer have one
and the service is less valuable?  That's not likely!

"Enjoy the Cox Advantage!"

----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Brutsche" <phil at giedi.obix.com>
To: <olug at bstc.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 12:39 PM
Subject: Re: [olug] New COX managed network bad for Linux


> A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
>
> > I'm not that worried about the IP changing this, I'm more worried about
> > non-routable IPs.
>
> Ya, that would suck.
>
> > When this change happens, will we all still have routable IPs? I've heard
> > of other cable internet systems moving to 10net or something similar.
>
> Word has it the change will happen tomorrow.  Unfortunately I think we'll
> have to wait until it happens to find out the truth :(
>
> Somehow I think we'll be getting IP numbers someplace under 68.0.0.0/12 -
> do a whois on 68.1.17.2 (the IP number for pop.*.cox.net) and you'll see
> that Cox owns that netblock.
>
> What I want to know is: how often will our IP number assignment change?
>
>
> Phil
>
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