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I get the idea, but this isn't necessarily useful as advice and toys with definitions. It's ESPN levels of conversation-baiting. Lots of assumptions can be reasonably made about residential LANs without being true of enterprise LANs/DMZs.

If a residential LAN is RFC1918 and has no NAT, then it is still a LAN... without internet access.

Then the "A & !A" fallacy of "MAC addresses can’t be changed. MAC addresses can be changed."

Just kind of a mess. Would be more interesting to explore the edge cases rather than throw out half-truths and 0.05% instances.

I like the GNOME 2006 era though.

Both A and !A can be fallacies if sometimes A.

The biggest fallacy here, though, and not stated, is that "LAN" is a meaningful concept.

The loosest definition might be "isolated network or leaf node of the internet" if one considers a non-natted DMZ to be a lan.

If one thinks all the assumptions in the article are bogus, then I agree there's no definition of the term.

99% of the time, being natted and/or having private address space is the definition.

Read it as chain of thoughts not as a list

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