Posted by Toby A Inkster on 06/12/07 20:37

Michael Fesser wrote:

> Still not reliable. The really big companies and providers usually have
> class B or even class A networks, which means that the last two or three
> octets may change. Even entirely different IPs are possible, so relying
> on that is _never_ reliable.

Indeed, my workplace isn't a big company -- it's a medium charity, with
fewer than 100 employees -- but we have three ADSL lines with two
different ISPs, providing us with some redundancy. Each ADSL line has a
very different IP address (not even the first octet is the same). Because
of our load balancing router, a request from a computer in our office
could appear to come from any of those three IP addresses.

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