HIP
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... The practice of using pegs for assigning IP-numbers was first used at
the HIP event (http://www.hip97.nl/). HIP stands for Hacking In
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... the HIP event (http://www.hip97.nl/). HIP stands for Hacking In
Progress, a large three-day event where more then a thousand hackers
from all over the world gathered. This event needed to have a TCP/IP ...
... Internet connection. Visitors and participants of the
HIP could bring along computers and hook them up to the HIP network.
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... connection. Visitors and participants of the
HIP could bring along computers and hook them up to the HIP network.
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During preparations for the HIP event we ran into the problem of how
to assign IP-numbers on such a large scale as was predicted for the
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The server can have many appearances. At HIP it was a large tent
situated at the central field where all the activities were. It can
also be a small table in the corner of a terminalroom.
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... IP stack, the information can be misinterpreted, which could
cause network troubles. In the field test at HIP this became
perfectly clear when someone mixed up the numbers and used the
address ...