Rogers Canada using 7.0.0.0/8 for internal address space

Mark Farina markfarina76 at gmail.com
Mon May 23 15:28:13 UTC 2011


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.

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?

sample chatter ..

MAC=00:14:f1:eb:57:de:08:00  SRC=7.8.12.1 DST=255.255.255.255 LEN=347
TOS=00 PREC=0x00 TTL=255 ID=16 PROTO=UDP SPT=67 DPT=68 LEN=327

IP (tos 0x0, ttl 255, id 15, offset 0, flags [none], proto UDP (17), length 355)
    7.8.12.1.67 > 255.255.255.255.68: [udp sum ok] BOOTP/DHCP, Reply,
length 327, xid 0x4, Flags [Broadcast] (0x8000)
          Your-IP 7.8.x.x
          Server-IP 7.8.x.1
          Gateway-IP 7.8.x.1
          Client-Ethernet-Address 00:0e:5c:xx:xx:xx
          file "xxx"
          Vendor-rfc1048 Extensions
            Magic Cookie 0xXX
            DHCP-Message Option 53, length 1: Offer
            Server-ID Option 54, length 4: 64.71.246.x
            Lease-Time Option 51, length 4: 548020
            Subnet-Mask Option 1, length 4: 255.255.252.0
            RN Option 58, length 4: 40
            Time-Zone Option 2, length 4: 0
            Default-Gateway Option 3, length 4: 7.8.x.1
            Time-Server Option 4, length 4: 64.71.x.x
            END Option 255, length 0
            PAD Option 0, length 0, occurs 41

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MF
gbtel.ca




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