Bah, there are a few Fundamental Truths of Networking Simplification
that we can absolutely rely on:
- it is perfectly safe to require that a given port be connected only
to a secure and trusted network
- if you design a protocol not to work over a WAN, everybody will
respect this, and deploy it only on LANs
- if any of the above constraints is no longer tenable, people will
carefully redesign the protocol in question, and replace the
installed base
- all LANs have simple, well-understood characteristics - now and
forever
After all, SNMP, FSP, LANE, NAT, WEP, etc. can't be wrong (-:C
And yes, I can vividly imagine users of dedicated hosts rush to switch
on that remote console the very moment it becomes available, and use
it across half of the planet.
- Werner
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