Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?]

[Nils Ketelsen <nils.ketelsen () kuehne-nagel com>]

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