Invisible wrote:
> IP is different. It's designed to work for large networks.

And SONET and ATM and X.25 and ISDN aren't?  Do you even know what those 
networks are?

Here's a hint: When you phone America from the UK, your voice is not 
traveling over IP.  Heck, the busy signal isn't traveling over IP either.

>> No. But over a fairly short time, that would have sorted itself out.
> Oh yeah? You recon??

Just like pretty much every other group of competing networking technologies.

> Sure, you don't usually talk to them directly; usually you use one of 
> the IP addresses from the block assigned to your ISP.

Ding ding! Guess what? They aren't assigned centrally. Your ISP assined you 
yours, mine assigned me mine.

 > But my point is,
> you can't just pick a random number out of the air and try to use that 
> as your IP address. It won't work.

That's a different statement from "they're assigned centrally."

And yes, actually, you can. You'll break other people, but it'll work if you 
do it right.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
    Ada - the programming language trying to avoid
    you literally shooting yourself in the foot.

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