On 11/2/06, Michael Sokolov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Do you think that ISPs have nothing better to do than go into the low level debug features of their DSLAMs, look at individual packets in hex etc. to detect that I started using a different implementation of their line management protocol?
Having worked for a company that manufactured and designed what are known as "IP flow classification" chips (specifically, Hifn, Inc.; oh, and they could be reprogramed for protocols other than IP too, including but not limited to ATM, and can do so at OC-192 speeds in real-time), yes, it is entirely possible to do this, **and to do this in an automated fashion**. No human intervention is required. Whether or not they actually take advantage of these chip features is quite another issue; that's a policy issue. But when/if a policy of protocol enforcement goes into effect, it can happen instantly and without warning to any customers.
If my ISP were like that, I wouldn't be their customer! Although of
Some countries don't give you a choice. Many of their rules are inspired or mandated by the telecommunications laws of their presiding governments.
Rather useless for me as there's nothing but horses and cows in a 20 km radius of my facility. I'm rather amazed that we have a Covad DSLAM here. Are Americans now spoiled to the point that even horses and cows can't live without high speed Internet any more?
I don't know if this means anything or not, but my family got high-speed broadband just last year. It was the first time they'd ever heard of a cable modem. And not because they're techno-inept either. Rollout is slow. But rollout is complete. Eventually. Just my two cents. -- Samuel A. Falvo II _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
