wierdo
join:2001-02-16
Tulsa, OK Reviews:
 ·Cox HSI
 ·T-Mobile US
| said by bn1221:Why does my phone need a non 10 or non 192 address Perhaps so your mail server can connect to it and tell it that it has new mail, amongst other things.
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It's wierdo, not weirdo. Yes, I know that's not the 'proper' spelling of the similar english language word.  |
Reviews:
·Comcast
| reply to bn1221
Phones (not just smartphones) have been Web-capable (in the US, and elsewhere) for years. I have the Samsung SCH-a610 (which I bought as a PAYG phone from VZW in 2005); it was Web-capable when I bought it, and it was FAR from being the first Web-capable phone. Also, if you are going to NAT a phone, where do you put the router? At the tower (where it's carrier-controlled)? In the home? (T-Mobile is trying that; how well is it working in terms of phones and capable routers?) If a device will surf the Web (or communicate via the Internet) it needs either NAT or a routable public IP. NAT is a kludge (elegant, but still a kludge), and it does not take certain things into account by design (in short, there are certain things that NAT is specifically designed NOT to allow). As more devices need public/routable IP addresses (mostly because NAT for such devices is not workable/practical), the IPv4 address shortfall will simply become more obvious. |
