>My box is a "LANCity Personal Modem".
>
>MediaOne has been remarkably irregular in their security stuff. For
>instance, they claim to filter out NetBIOS traffic at the cable modem,
>but that doesn't seem to be true. I feel happier with a firewall.
After I thought about this whole thing for a bit.. I know that the
Motorola CyberSufr cablemodems so DES encrypttion between the
cablemodem and the headend router for every link.
So.. at least with the Motorola cablemodems, the whole IP spoofing
and ARP swiping shouldn't be an issue.
--David
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