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Re: Google wants to be your Internet
From: Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 14:59:21 -0500 (EST)
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Chris L. Morrow wrote:
globally unique addresses I have an electic company, it's got 2500 partners, all with the same 'internal ip addressing plan' (192.168.1.0/24) we need to communicate, is NAT on both sides really efficient?
What do you do when the electric companies split up again, renumber the meters into different network blocks?Satellite set-top boxes don't need to be assigned unique phone numbers to report pay-per-view events back to Dish/DirecTV. They just wake up every few weeks, use the transport identifier already available on the customer's phone line and sends the data, with an embedded identifier
independent from the network transport. If the satellite STB ever knew its telephone number, it is probably out-of-date after a few area codechanges. The same thing happens with burgerler alarm reporting, and lots of other things.
I think network engineers are too quick to use network identifiers for applications. Electric meters, set-top boxes, alarm systems, ice-boxes, and whatever else you want to connect to the network don't need to have the same permanent identifier for the application and the transport. Most of the time they don't need a permanent transport identifier.
Current thread:
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet, (continued)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Jeroen Massar (Jan 22)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Roland Dobbins (Jan 22)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet J. Oquendo (Jan 22)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Jeroen Massar (Jan 22)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Roland Dobbins (Jan 22)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Jeroen Massar (Jan 23)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Roland Dobbins (Jan 23)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Nicholas Suan (Jan 22)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Jim Shankland (Jan 22)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Chris L. Morrow (Jan 23)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Sean Donelan (Jan 23)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Adrian Chadd (Jan 23)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Roland Dobbins (Jan 23)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Roland Dobbins (Jan 20)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Roland Dobbins (Jan 24)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Mark Smith (Jan 24)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Roland Dobbins (Jan 24)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Jason LeBlanc (Jan 24)
- RE: Google wants to be your Internet Jamie Bowden (Jan 24)