Re: [nznog] Oh dear, no more room on the intarweb

On 8/05/2006 8:26 a.m., Steve Phillips wrote:

Then why on earth wouldn't you employ a firewall to protect your fridge/car brakes while allowing access to other parts of your network that you DO want to communicate to the outside world directly ?

Exactly. You'd do more than just a firewall, you'd want some of authentication device as well as a system to integrate control over a range of devices, hence the use of RFC1918 would be perfectly acceptable for the fridge, car brakes and so forth. In this way most would be happy with a single (maybe two but probably not) real IPv4 address Bob