FYI A couple of weeks ago, a manager where I work showed me an e-mail he received from his (and my) DSL ISP.
Evidently one of his computers on his home network (his teenage son's) had gotten infected with a virus and began portscanning. Some monitoring group caught the portscan, e-mailed the date, time, and IP Address to the ISP. The ISP checked it's records and found out it was his connection and sent him the e-mail. It basically said "Get your damn anti-virus software updated, or we will pull the plug on your connection, it violates our AUP" (Okay it was worded nicer than that, with info on what the virus was, where to find information on getting rid of it, anti-virus software reccomendations, and so-on. But the dissconnection threat was in there). Which leads me to beleive that most ISP's are going to want to to keep track of IP's. (The way ours seems to do it is by generating the assigned IP address based on the MAC address of the device connecting to their network. As long as I use the same MAC address, I get the same IP address. Gotta love those cheap home routers that let you clone MAC addresses) -- Neil Johnson --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
