That is the first vendor I've heard of that does if that is the case.
That is why they call it "shared media". I can see all sorts of garbage
if I do a tcpdump on my public interface on total-web.net. Consider
yourself lucky.
Carric Dooley
COM2:Interactive Media
http://www.com2usa.com
On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Andy wrote:
> I have Comcast @home in Maryland and I ran a sniffer on one of my
> machines the other day and could not sniff my neighbor's traffic, so
> obviously some type of control is used to prevent
> "inter-customer-chicanery".
>
> -Andy
>
> Carric Dooley wrote:
> >
> > Well, you share your link with all the other folks on your segment, and
> > there is typically no IDS or anything in place to monitore
> > "inter-customer-chicanery". It is really not that different from getting
> > a T1 from whomever except that you don't typically have to worry about
> > curious probing from your neighbors.
>
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