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Username:	reedpc
Date/Time:	Wed, May 31, 2000 at 7:17 PM GMT
Browser:	Netscape Communicator V4.72 using Windows 98
Score:	5
Subject:	IP Address
Message:
An illustrative example: AOL only has a relative handful of IP addresses, certainly not enough to provide one address for each of their many millions of subscribers. Therefore, if you have multiple visitors from AOL, the chances are different users will appear to come from the same address, or that at different times the same user would appear to have come from a different address. The same thing would happen from any company that uses an address-translating firewall. In the cases of companies that I have set up Internet security, all the users from behind that firewall would appear from the outside world to have come from the same IP address. Don't panic - it's normal.

Message Thread:

• What is an IP address, and... — Kelly, April 29, 2000 @ 5:07 AM (2/3)
• an IP address is a binary number that represents a computer on a TCP/IP network — Aetius, July 2, 2000 @ 6:08 PM (0/0)
• IP Address — reedpc, May 31, 2000 @ 7:17 PM (1/1)
• If AOL had more IP addresses, how would they use them? — Thomas Lowenhaupt, June 12, 2000 @ 12:27 AM (0/0)

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