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I attended a university which DHCP'd unique, public-facing IPs to every device on the network. Although this requires tens-of-thousands of unique global IPs, th
by ProllyInfamous 3y ago
I attended a university which DHCP'd unique, public-facing IPs to every device on the network. Although this requires tens-of-thousands of unique global IPs, the university only utilizes a small percentage of their allocated IP range. Having worked in the IT dept during school, I know it would have been a nightmare to attempt merging ours with another IP-range.
Back in 2006 I gave a presentation on IPv4 end-of-life, when it was then predicted IPv6 would be entirely necessary by 2020 (i.e. that IPv4 would die out by then). This explainer/demo, almost two decades ago, got me a job offer... and yet two decades later I still don't use IPv6, myself!
- spiffytech 3y agoMy university did this and it was great for me as a student. I bought an old workstation from surplus and put it on my dorm room desk as a server. I got to play around a lot with of tech stuff that would have otherwise been out of reach because $5 VPS didn't really exist yet.
- ProllyInfamous 3y ago>old workstation from surplus and put it on my dorm room desk as a server. Our dorm did this, with competitions to see "who could upload the most torrent traffic" [i2hub fiber between universities was just becoming popular]. Eventually the MAC address would be blacklisted, and all you'd need to do is replace the NIC and you'd immediately be "back in business." >I got to play around a lot with of tech stuff that would have otherwise been out of reach Memories, and it goes by so quickly (my ranting is from two decades ago). Then life gets serious =P
- hyc_symas 3y agoReplacing the NIC sounds expensive, on a college student budget. You could've just reprogrammed the MAC EEPROM, no?