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   "David Schwartz"  wrote in message   
   news:8a306499-3f14-43cd-9999-a0349dce0ad8@u22g2000yqf.googlegroups.com...   
   On Mar 29, 3:44 pm, Hans-Bernhard Bröker    
   wrote:   
      
   >> I believe that, strictly speaking, that can't happen. If you have no   
   >> internet at the moment, you don't have DHCP either. Remember that DHCP   
   >> itself is a UDP service. UDP in turn works on top of IP, and that, for   
   >> better or for worse, is "internet".   
      
   >Many networks that have nothing whatsoever to do with the Internet   
   >have adopted its protocol. You can't have the Internet without IP, but   
   >you can certainly have IP with the Internet.   
      
   For this thread to make any sense you should be able to define exactly what   
   an 'Internet' is. Off you go...   
      
   Mark.   
      
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