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Re: Need help to connect to ISP!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ed Carp, KHIJOL SysAdmin)
Sat Feb 3 12:43:27 1996
From: "Ed Carp, KHIJOL SysAdmin" <erc@dal1820.computek.net>
To: erich@basenet.com (Eric Hester)
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 10:07:11 -0600 (CST)
Cc: mikedlr@indy.unipress.waw.pl, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199602030257.VAA10011@basenet.basenet.com> from "Eric Hester" at Feb 2, 96 09:57:22 pm
Reply-To: ecarp@netcom.com
> thats TOTALLY untrue. Static IPs are #1 a waste of IP addresses (and that is
> going to eventually catch up with us all as the net grows), #2 totally
> pointless.. why (unless requested) give a user a static IP address if they
Untrue. Static IPs are necessary under the following conditions:
1. You want to let other people use services that you offer
on your box, such as anonymous FTP or telnet. In this
case, using a dynamic IP is next to useless.
2. You want to use either SOCKS or IP masquerading to let
a bunch of hosts 'hide' behind you. This is a more
efficient way of doing things than assigning either a
bunch of IP addresses for dynamic IP or a block of
class C addresses for hosts. In fact, I don't see why
an entire organization couldn't live with just one IP
address if all they want to do is let people do outbound
services. In fact, that's exactly what our 5000+
person organization does. We have a firewall that is
advertised (with a static IP) - then everyone hides
behind that one machine. We use SOCKS instead of IP
masquerading, because SOCKS is far easier to install on
a commercial box than IP masquerading is - we want to keep
our kernels standard.
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