> KOCO-TV Suppresses an Explosive 9/11 News Report
3 August 2005, 15:34
Hmmm... you *might* have worked for large corporations and the DoD, but you’ve obviously never worked with LARGE networks:
1. Most people do not use routers for DHCP. They use servers. Either a Windows server or Unix server. Only a small network would use a router for DHCP.
2. Yes, a router might have an outside IP address that can be traced back to the router, but that’s it. If the hosts behind the router are being assigned addresses in the private IP space (ie. not routable over the internet), then there will not be a one to eon relationship between the LAN hosts and the internet. You could literally have hundreds of machines appearing to come from the router’s IP address thanks to NAT. I know that’s what we do where I work: One valid internet address per every 200 or so machines. On that LAN a host might be 10.10.6.52 and another might be 10.10.6.21, but on the internet they would appear as 66.5.213.4 (just a random example for the outside IP).
3. Just because someone corrects technical misunderstanding made by an anti-Bush person, doesn’t make that person pro-Bush. I’m anti-Bush myself, but I really don’t like to see people living with misunderstandings about technology.
4. I work in a public sector job where we provide internet access to students. I can tell you that when we first started, we DID use real internet addresses for every machine on the network back in the early 90s. But as we learned more abour security and the number of machines grew, we found this to be untenable. We moved to NAT so that we could increase the number of machines inside while still only utilizing a handful of real internet IPs on the outside. It sounds like OU doesn’t do this, which is fine for them as they are probably a small institution.
Don’t continue to perpetuate ignorance. And if you truly have worked for 20 years in the field and are a BSEE, then you might want to go back and read some books because your knowledge is currently lacking.
Hmmm... you *might* have worked for large corporations and the DoD, but you’ve obviously never worked with LARGE networks:
1. Most people do not use routers for DHCP. They use servers. Either a Windows server or Unix server. Only a small network would use a router for DHCP.
2. Yes, a router might have an outside IP address that can be traced back to the router, but that’s it. If the hosts behind the router are being assigned addresses in the private IP space (ie. not routable over the internet), then there will not be a one to eon relationship between the LAN hosts and the internet. You could literally have hundreds of machines appearing to come from the router’s IP address thanks to NAT. I know that’s what we do where I work: One valid internet address per every 200 or so machines. On that LAN a host might be 10.10.6.52 and another might be 10.10.6.21, but on the internet they would appear as 66.5.213.4 (just a random example for the outside IP).
3. Just because someone corrects technical misunderstanding made by an anti-Bush person, doesn’t make that person pro-Bush. I’m anti-Bush myself, but I really don’t like to see people living with misunderstandings about technology.
4. I work in a public sector job where we provide internet access to students. I can tell you that when we first started, we DID use real internet addresses for every machine on the network back in the early 90s. But as we learned more abour security and the number of machines grew, we found this to be untenable. We moved to NAT so that we could increase the number of machines inside while still only utilizing a handful of real internet IPs on the outside. It sounds like OU doesn’t do this, which is fine for them as they are probably a small institution.
Don’t continue to perpetuate ignorance. And if you truly have worked for 20 years in the field and are a BSEE, then you might want to go back and read some books because your knowledge is currently lacking.