On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 07:40:52PM +0100, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
Who said the only purpose of IP was to connect to the Internet?
Not me. But if you don't connect to the internet you don't contribute to the global routing table so there is no issue. :-)
The point is, that these days applications such as mail and web are sufficiently heavy that you can't even run them cost effectively over dial up (wasting your employee's time costs more than the fatter line) let alone less.
The Fork Lift driver in some random warehouse does not need email. All he needs is his Barcode scanner to send an 8Digit-Number over the line every 1 or two minutes and get an equal length reply telling him where to Haul the box whose barcode he just scanned. Nils