On Wed, 6 May 2020 at 16:53, Rob Evans <[email protected]> wrote: > > Public IPv4 addresses direct on PCs, Mobile Devices on Guest Wifi > Networks, > > internal Printers.... I have seen this with my own eyes. > > Those sound like features, and how the Internet was supposed to work. >
The 6th form college I attended between '96-'98 had a /24 with all machines publicly addressed. I then went to Uni in '98 and all hosts addressed from a /16 didn't feel out of place. It was great - at both institutions you could happily run your own servers etc as there was NO packet filtering at all. Different days back then, mind. I remember the "Campus Firewall Project" at Bradford did kick up a bit of a stink - suddenly lots of freedoms were taken away on those public IPs. Much sadness amongst CompSci geeks but they did need to reign things in a bit - IIRC the student radio station famously racked up a rather large transatlantic bandwidth bill by running a RealAudio server and one show attracted a sizeable listenership from the USA! Rich.
