Read an article about this recently. Right now there are about 4 billion IP
addresse available, and yes indeed, they are becoming more and more scarce.
To compensate, apparently "they" want to add another byte to IP addresses.
Interesting...
Amber
on 8/15/01 10:34 PM, Trishan Arul at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Yep, that's it. It's not really the hub that is 'allowing' one computer on
> at a time. Its his ISP that only allows one computer to have an IP address
> (which is typical). To be honest, I'm still not sure how the world has
> still not run out of usable IP addresses yet, even with most users using
> dynamic addresses.
>
>> From: Amber Rhea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
>> Why would the Asante hub allow the computers to access the internet only one
>> at a time? We have a Linksys 5-port hub, with all the computers and the
>> cable modem plugged into it, and the computers all have simultaneous access.
>> Is the difference that we have a Linux server, and in the above situation
>> there was no 'router' until the Asante router/switch was added?
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