On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Bryce T. Pier wrote: > Does the cox modem do NAT? I don't mind having to share the outgoing IP > address but do want to have at least 3 machines on the network. It's > interesting that down here several ISPs want to charge more per month > for multiple machines behind a NAT, how the heck would they even know?
There was a paper published describing a technique to count the number of machines behind a NAT box using the IPID field. There are limitations and short comings, but it is possible. But i doubt Cox has implemented anything like that... http://www.research.att.com/~smb/papers/fnat.pdf ray -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ray DeJean http://www.r-a-y.org Systems Engineer Southeastern Louisiana University IBM Certified Specialist AIX Administration, AIX Support =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
