Re: An idea: GxSE

[Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>]

On Sun, 15 Jul 2001 mcrietf@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca wrote:

> >>>>> "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.

But does this invalidate my point? I don't see boxes that provide actual 
services use autoconfiguration.

Iljitsch van Beijnum