RE: Whoa; the 3 network?

["Bono, Vinny (CAP, ITS, US)" <vbono () gecits GE com>]

Well, GE is the largest corporation in the world.  The total employees
in all seven divisions and their components is just over 1.7 million.
That is a lot.  Add in all the IP devices in NBC's network alone and
you've got a huge number of justifiable space right there.  Further,
they, uh sorry, we, :-)  are renumbering all acquired companies into the
3.0.0.0/8 range and returning the historic class B's (i.e. Ameridata,
Bodan, etc.).  

Vincent J. Bono
Comstor Corporation
A GE Capital Service Company




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adam Rothschild [SMTP:asr () millburn net]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 1997 7:09 AM
> To:   Alex Rubenstein
> Cc:   nanog () merit edu
> Subject:      Re: Whoa; the 3 network?
>
> Funky discovery...  question is, why does GE need such massive addr
> space?
> :)
>
> -=asr
>
> On Tue, 23 Dec 1997, Alex Rubenstein wrote:
>
> > Maybe I should be sleeping rather than examining BGP tables, but:
> >
> >
> > whi4#sho ip bgp 3.156.20.0
> > BGP routing table entry for 3.156.20.0/24, version 449977
> > Paths: (1 available, best #1, advertised over IBGP)
> >   7372 701 3561 1221
> >     207.99.5.196 from 207.99.5.196 (208.210.32.17)
> >       Origin incomplete, localpref 500, valid, external, best
> >       Community: 666
> >
> >
> >
> > traceroute to 3.156.20.1 (3.156.20.1), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
> > .
> > .
> >  5  telstra.SanFrancisco.mci.net (166.48.19.250)  332.535 ms
> 538.669 ms 365.308 ms
> >  6  Fddi0-0.pad-core1.Sydney.telstra.net (139.130.249.226)  290.266
> ms 317.40 ms  290.209 ms
> >  7  Hssi6-0.lon-core1.Melbourne.telstra.net (139.130.249.214)
> 350.701 ms 339.90 ms  439.199 ms
> >  8  Fddi0-0.lon11.Melbourne.telstra.net (139.130.239.234)  419.291
> ms 424.309 ms  283.243 ms
> >  9  power2.lnk.telstra.net (139.130.49.114)  403.623 ms  353.911 ms
> 307.750 ms
> > 10  203.36.142.146 (203.36.142.146)  348.695 ms  310.482 ms  301.917
> ms
> > [root@newspeer1 /root]# whois 3.0.0.0  
> > General Electric Company (NET-GE-INTERNET)
> >    One Independence Way
> >    Princeton, NJ  08540
> >
> >    Netname: GE-INTERNET
> >    Netnumber: 3.0.0.0