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Article: Crunching the numbers; IP address management comes to the forefront as IT shops work to deliver more services and ensure their networks remain available and secure.
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- Network World
- Article date:
- May 9, 2005
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Byline: DENISE DUBIE
Will McGregor isn't an accountant, but still his job requires that he keep tabs on 20,000 numbers at once.
As a LAN network and security team member for Reuters in London, the numbers McGregor monitors are IP addresses, which represent more than 10,000 servers and network devices. According to McGregor, if the numbers don't match, customers simply don't get the IP services or applications they've requested from the media giant's network.
"You can't have any IP address conflicts because the IP services will eventually stop working. The routers won't know where to pass the packets to next, and that would be a complete ...