This problem is endemic and inherent to ALL cable companies because each
segment (more or less a few block radius) is a common subnet. Some of
the providers (@work but not for the @home service) provide VPN as an
(extra cost of course) option. Those of you who support home offices et
al need to be very carefull that your at-home workstations don't dial-up
to your office while having a cable modem connection as well: I have
reproduced bridging going on in some configurations of Win95 (I don't
use 98, NT seems immune unless forwarding is enabled). We know that this
is't supposed to happen but ...
I guess the "easy to config/easy to reboot" Micro$oft platforms have
some downside from that ease of use ... before we smirk too much,
remember that Samba on UNIX has the same problems. Appletalk would have
a similar problem but its use has been marginalized by TCP ubiquity and
Micro$oft market shares (pun intended).
"Phillips, Steven W (Steve), GOVMK" wrote:
> Actually this is not much of a surprise. It's a side effect of the way some
> cable companies are implementing their Internet access offerings that is
> just not highlighted. Sort of a "dirty little secret". Most cable Internet
> access is just one big LAN and anyone who can put their computer in
> promiscuous mode or, at the very least, use Network Neighborhood can find
> out lots of interesting stuff. I've wanted to do the same thing for some
> time now, but my ethics keep getting in the way.
>
> > ----------
> > From: Gary Maltzen[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Saturday, July 10, 1999 6:18 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Surprise, Surprise...
> >
> > Saturday Minneapolis Star-Trib has a front page article on how a local
> > resident hooked his computer up to his cable provider and was able to
> > browse 30-odd home AND BUSINESS machines before he raised a red flag.
> > (Much to his dismay, he apparently discovered that one of his neighbors is
> > a "porn king")
> >
> > http://www.startribune.com/stOnLine/cgi-bin/article?thisSlug=cabl10
> >
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