> There will be a significant number of Mandrake installations on
> standalone machines that use residential cable modems for internet
> connection. The cable vendors are adamant that servers are not
> permitted and conduct regular port scans to enforce that. By your
> contract, if discovered, you risk summary disconnection. The present
> 'workstation' definition is needed to support these installations. I
> suspect the auth port must be left open, and is not checked by the
> cable service vendor, otherwise no IRC chat, etc.
>
I don't know how they do it where you are.. But the CableCo. here just
firewalls those ports... you can have ftpd running all day but the ISP has
it firwalled off.
It's much more simpler than doing a stupid port scan of all your
customers...
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