> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of David
> A. Sinck
> Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 8:55 AM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: RE: Need ISP!!!
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> \_ 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
>
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perhaps I am naive here but I always thought that the way to use an address
reserved for private lan on the internet was via source-routed
packets...forged with a return path so replies would gateway thru an
internet IP.

Craig