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Minor network rant
Oct. 13th, 2003 03:33 pmWhy, oh why must telcos always assume they own everything? Why take a resonable slice of a pie when you can take the whole pie, the store it's being sold in, and the global business that owns the bakeries?
So I'm installing a Sierra Wireless network card to use T-Mobile GPRS service on my laptop. They decide to use a 10.X private IP range. Okay, we can deal with that. But no... they use a 10.0.0.0/8 netwok range. That means they're glomming 16.7 MILLION addresses for their cards. This also means it breaks anything done over VPN to other 10.* ranges, which are commonly used in a corporate environment.
Gee, thanks Sierra.
So I'm installing a Sierra Wireless network card to use T-Mobile GPRS service on my laptop. They decide to use a 10.X private IP range. Okay, we can deal with that. But no... they use a 10.0.0.0/8 netwok range. That means they're glomming 16.7 MILLION addresses for their cards. This also means it breaks anything done over VPN to other 10.* ranges, which are commonly used in a corporate environment.
Gee, thanks Sierra.
