Re: An idea: GxSE

[mcrietf@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca]

>>>>> "Iljitsch" == Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com> writes:
    Iljitsch> The only systems that are hard to renumber are those that
    Iljitsch> others frequently connect to. Since you wouldn't want your web
    Iljitsch> server to magically get a new IP address and become unreachable
    Iljitsch> when it gets a new MAC address or someone else uses the same
    Iljitsch> MAC address these are configured manually. But how many web
    Iljitsch> servers do most organizations run?

  Every single Linux and Windows 2000 box that I've installed lately has
had a web server installed by default. They are used for system
maintenance and all sorts of other things.
  Please do not let yourself get trapped into client/server world. This
is peer to peer world.
  Deployment of VoIP will make that much more clear.

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