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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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