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Re:Falsehoods Programmers Believe About LANs by StilesCrisis on Saturday September 05, 2026 @07:37PM (#49581853)
I feel like the point of those is conceptually "take these things off the LAN." If we allow for that, what even is a LAN?
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Re:Falsehoods Programmers Believe About LANs by mitxela on Saturday September 05, 2026 @09:42PM (#49582540)
You are correct. It explicitly breaks the LAN, does not provide a LAN, only an internet gateway in most cases.
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