[75751] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nils Ketelsen)
Mon Nov 22 16:42:29 2004
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 16:41:52 -0500
From: Nils Ketelsen <nils.ketelsen@kuehne-nagel.com>
To: North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes <nanog@merit.edu>
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In-Reply-To: <DEFFB5A2-3BEC-11D9-992B-000A95CD987A@muada.com>; from iljitsch@muada.com on Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 07:40:52PM +0100
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On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 07:40:52PM +0100, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> > Who said the only purpose of IP was to connect to the Internet?
>
> Not me. But if you don't connect to the internet you don't contribute
> to the global routing table so there is no issue. :-)
>
> The point is, that these days applications such as mail and web are
> sufficiently heavy that you can't even run them cost effectively over
> dial up (wasting your employee's time costs more than the fatter line)
> let alone less.
The Fork Lift driver in some random warehouse does not need email. All
he needs is his Barcode scanner to send an 8Digit-Number over the
line every 1 or two minutes and get an equal
length reply telling him where to Haul the box whose barcode he just
scanned.
Nils
