Virginia Gun Owners Forum - VGOF

"The Day the Routers Died"
Notes:
It's a long video.
The Brits pronounce "routers" as "rooters".
If you are not aware of the upcoming change from IPv4 to IPv6, it won't make much sense.

lol that's pretty funny - what a bunch of dorks!

allingeneral wrote:lol that's pretty funny - what a bunch of dorks!

DORKS!

Though I actually wasn't there for that particular meeting, I've attended many of the RIPE meetings. That room is the main ballroom at the Grand Krasnapolsky hotel in Amsterdam, which is right across the street from the Dutch Royal Palace. As far as conferences for computer geeks go, RIPE meetings are some of the best in my opinion.

If we werent assigning IP addresses to everything including lawn sprinklers and desk lamps we wouldnt need IPv6....

zephyp wrote:If we werent assigning IP addresses to everything including lawn sprinklers and desk lamps we wouldnt need IPv6....

It's still not as bad as it could have been if Bill Gates' dream of "Internet Appliances" had actually come to pass. Remember the mock-ups of a refrigerator with an LCD screen on the front?.

I guess it's just a matter of time now before I'll be sitting in a small room with a piece of scratch paper and a #2 pencil, subnetting an IPv6 network

Argggg... my head hurts

Well, I'm not kidding about the sprinklers and lamps. I worked for a general a few short years ago who wanted me to build that vision into the architecture I was putting together for him. He thought is was a neat idea. Wanted to remote control everything...even me.

The problem with putting "gadgets" on the net with IPs is they can be used for things the manufacturer never thought of...not good. Can you imagine an IP addressable fridge in your kitchen with a screen? Who knows what some kook might dream up to do with something like that.

zephyp wrote:The problem with putting "gadgets" on the net with IPs is they can be used for things the manufacturer never thought of...not good. Can you imagine an IP addressable fridge in your kitchen with a screen? Who knows what some kook might dream up to do with something like that.

Coming soon, it's the new Maytag Jihaderator

OakRidgeStars wrote:

zephyp wrote:If we werent assigning IP addresses to everything including lawn sprinklers and desk lamps we wouldnt need IPv6....

It's still not as bad as it could have been if Bill Gates' dream of "Internet Appliances" had actually come to pass. Remember the mock-ups of a refrigerator with an LCD screen on the front?.

I guess it's just a matter of time now before I'll be sitting in a small room with a piece of scratch paper and a #2 pencil, subnetting an IPv6 network

Argggg... my head hurts

The time is almost here:
http://www.technewsreview.com.au/articl ... icle=10135

Actually, if you haven't gone to v6 you should do it asap.

** Edit (allingeneral) This thread has been split from an earlier topic that was clearly hijacked

Amazing. I can remember before DNS that "routing" was done by host.txt tables. That was when there were only about a dozen hosts on the net though. Really showing my age on this one. MILNET anyone?

OakRidgeStars wrote:

zephyp wrote:The problem with putting "gadgets" on the net with IPs is they can be used for things the manufacturer never thought of...not good. Can you imagine an IP addressable fridge in your kitchen with a screen? Who knows what some kook might dream up to do with something like that.

Coming soon, it's the new Maytag Jihaderator

More like some script kiddy getting bored, downloading the latest un-patched exploit and deciding everyone's kitchen needs some porn.

Milnet? Yep We had to do the IPv6 shuffle at my work, as mandated by OMB. What a waste of time and resources.

I'm a router guy, and I cringed at the title.