RE: TCP/IP vs. Non-TCP/IP networking
RE: TCP/IP vs. Non-TCP/IP networking
- Subject: RE: TCP/IP vs. Non-TCP/IP networking
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 19:03:34 EDT
Dave,
if the people at the MUG are having problems with
configuring TCP/IP, then they probably should look at DHCP,
which once a router or switch is configured with a block of
IP numbers, will auto-configure TCP/IP for the individual
machines. This eliminates the end-user hassles all
together. It also permits dynamic reuse of TCP/IP numbers,
and when combined with NAT, permits use of 'fake' IP
numbers tied together to a single real IP number.
Other cool TCP/IP tricks include: multi-homing (using
multiple TCP/IP numbers on a single machine for different
purposes, such as running a web site off one number and
using the other for personal traffic). If you're on the
net, you use TCP/IP, whether you see it or not (AOL users,
without a dedicated connection, you are using TCP/IP via
BootP whenever you dial in). Even things like AppleTalk are
just ways of hiding the numbering scheme (although
AppleTalk does not require TCP/IP, it does use a numbering
scheme of it's own). Final word: if the Rendevous software
Apple is now hyping works as promised, TCP/IP
configurations will be auto-configurable (or
auto-self-configuring) and may make situations like yours
much easier.
Best Wishes,
=-= Marc Glasgow
Dave Wrote:
>
Non-TCP/IP networks (such as AppleTalk) are way cool
>
because you don't have to screw around with the whole IP
>
address thing and stuff. I frequently attend my local MUG
>
where they are forever trying to access the internet on the
>
TCP/IP network in the building, but can NEVER do it. So,
>
based on my experiances, TCP/IP is just a really
>
complicated way of networking that doesn't seem to work too
>
well. AppleTalk, on the other hand, has never given me any
>
problems at all and is very stable. So, AppleTalk is way
>
cool.
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