On Saturday 12 January 2002 12:15 pm, mulix wrote: > greetings. > > the following (unsubstantiated) mail from bugtraq might interest alcatel > speed touch home modem users. could anyone who used the 'expert' hack > please let me know if the fact that the modem does masquerading means > that it has an externally visible ip?
It should. I haven't tried it myself but my understanding is that the change described in the 'expert' hack HOWTO not only changes the modem to a Pro mode, but also alters the configuration in such a way that the modem stop being an PPTP over Ethernet to PPP over ATM bridge and in fact starts being a PPP over ATM end point - thus reciving the IP the ISP normally allocates to the client. Access to the actual user computers is possibly because the modem also performs SNAT on the LAN (Ethernet) side. Thus, if the bugtraq report is true, users of the 'expert' hack are much more vulnerable then the regular users, because the public IP then blongs to the modem device. Gilad. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
