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> It also was a time where companies were paranoid into letting employees access the internet, but at the same time had abysmal security. I recall we had a cr
by cptskippy 4y ago
> It also was a time where companies were paranoid into letting employees access the internet, but at the same time had abysmal security.
I recall we had a crappy firewall that would collapse under the load of NAT for the 100ish employees and so executives got static IPs mapped to their machines. The late 90s and 00s were crazy.
- logifail 4y ago> so executives got static IPs mapped to their machines. The late 90s and 00s were crazy In my Uni days, all our department's machines had public IPs; no NAT, no firewall(!) So much simpler to able to telnet, FTP and/or remote desktop straight from home to the office :)
- eashman 4y agoSame at my University in the mid-90s. I was the CS department network admin and we had an entire /24 to use as we liked. At least it taught me how to detect attempted hacks early because every machine had to be monitored for attacks. I just looked and they still have a /16 (65k public addresses). This is for a school that has maybe 15k students, not all of them living on the campus. And I’m sure most of the computing takes place in the cloud now anyway. I know there are a lot of places who were on the Net early besides the military that have excess address capacity.