• Ajen@sh.itjust.works
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        19 days ago

        The only way some IT guy can notice it pinging the outside world is if it’s connected to the internet.

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          19 days ago

          Depends on the router it’s hooked to and the level of traffic logging being performed. Being connected to a LAN is not the same as being connected to the internet.

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            19 days ago

            No, it doesn’t depend on the router. The device can either send traffic to other devices on the internet or it can’t. If the device can ping something on the internet, then it is connected to the internet. It’s a tautology.

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              19 days ago

              All traffic from that device is going to pass through the router. In order to start communicating with the other device, the first device has to send a packet. The router sees that packet, and routes it to the other device. If there’s no internet connection, things die here, but the router still saw that initial packet.

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                19 days ago

                Sorry, I realized I misread your earlier post. I missed the word “trying,” and it sounded like your were saying the device might not be connected to the internet even though it’s successfully pinging a server.

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      23 days ago

      They connect to allow the vitals to be pulled into the EMR to allow continuous documentation of vitals for the anesthesia record or central patient monitoring. More and more frequently, the database is not onsite and is shared amongst several sites within a hospital system.

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        23 days ago

        But the device itself shouldn’t need internet connectivity for this. That networking should be handled by a local master device, the same way access control systems (e.g. Door badge readers, alarm monitoring, etc) work.

        Then this device would only use a local, isolated network to access the master device.