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>> Why are you running routed? Remember, routed is different from route.
>> Routed is for dynamic routing via RIP where as route is for static routes
>
>when I kill routed, my internet connection dies..... ?
Then your network isn't configured correctly. How does your Linux machine
get its IP address? Statically assigned? DHCP? If you are running
Redhat, look at /etc/sysconfig/network and
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth*
>Umm, I bet redhat will do alot of things that will piss some people off,
specially
>not what they are a public company.
Yeah.. I'm in a wait and see attitude with them. Mandrake is a good distro
(better than RH) but if Redhat starts going south, I'll switch to something
else.
>> I bet you are going through a massive NAT box. This is common for
Cablemodem
>> / DSL links. The question is.. are they monitoring you?
>
>WOW!, stop... ok, can you please elaborate on this ? Personally if I can find
that
>they are monitoring me, I will take them to court, and if that does not help,
I
>will re-shape this company.
>Any ISP have the right to read my email, but they do not have the right to
monitor
>real time traffic, it is a violation of freedom. Here comes another million
dollar
>lawsuit. How can I tell/prove ?
Well, for example, I was trying to get to my WWW server behind my cablemodem
from
my own static dial-up ISP address. Though the firewall was setup right, I kept
seeing that my WWW requests were coming from another IP address. After a
little
digging, I figured that my ISP had setup a transparent caching WWW proxy
server.
They do this to save on Internet traffic. Well, I hated this fact, told them
to NOT proxy my traffic and within 5 minutes, they removed me from that box.
So, what about @Home and this weird IP? Its hard to say. It might be just a
fancy NAT box. But it also wouldn't surprise me if it DOES monitor your
traffic in terms of:
- MB uploaded
- MB download
- etc
This isn't illegal at all. Next, @home routinely does light port scans to
figure out who is running servers. Since I block everything except SMTP and
DNS, I think they let it slide.
>That's why I switched back from NT to *unix... I remember the good old days of
QNX
>.. umm what ever happened to UNISYS ? are they still alive ?
Their out there but I think only on the high end.
--David
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