\_ SMTP quoth Craig White on 3/14/2001 07:32 as having spake thusly: \_ \_ Y'all are talking 'bout providers with IP addresses go like 24.x.x.x and \_ when you put create firewall scripts for linux, you have to be judicious \_ about the type of activity you log because there is so dang much of it. I \_ remember when I first put an slightly altered firewall/masq script of \_ TrinityOS on an @home link...the lan internet access slowed to a crawl by \_ Thursay and by Friday was virtually unusuable - /var/log/messages grew to \_ over 600 megabytes. Sprint Broadband seems to squash most of the \_ non-routables but they aren't perfect either. I particularly enjoy how a 10.x addr appears as a hop in a traceroute to at least one @home box (haven't tested others). That's lovely. I'm suspicious that the cable modem is controllable upstream by hitting that IP. Hmmm. I wonder if it a) appears when the box is off (or disconnected) and b) when the modem is off. Someone with a dialup want to ping their cable modem IP in those states? David