On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 16:35, Matthew Gregan wrote: > At 2004-11-11T16:26:25+1300, Nick Rout wrote: > > the weird thing is that the ppp connection gets weird ip addresses > > (192.168...) > It's not weird, it's just from RFC1918 private address space. > Unfortunately, some ISPs hand addresses from these ranges out to users, > so the user ends up being stuck being some form of NAT and never has a > real public routable IP address.
But, your windows PC doesn't end up with a dirty filthy worm through some kind of port exploit. I have wondered though, whether the internal security in some ISPs is up to scratch. Although the internet can't get directly to you (via your IP), other users on the internal network possibly can. Depends on the ISP of course. Less maliciously, you might be able to find out how many users are dialed in and fish out other interesting data of a statistical nature. Michael...
