> Just a curious question, i dont know a lot about tcp/ip and so forth. If you
> were to have 2 linux boxes. One with a cable modem with ipmasq and another
> one with dial in lines attached to it, would it be possible for
> optus/telstra to detect this thorugh a port scan or other means. Obviously
> depending on the number of dial in users being supported, you wouldnt have
> normal traffic patterns which would be a tell tale give away that something
> is happening behind your firewall. How easy/hard would it be to detect this
> from the ISP's point of view??
For your average ISP difficult, for telstra trivial.
1 or maybe 2 dialins they wouldn't notice, but more than that and they
would defiently ask questions. Telstra will just watch how many anaolog
phone lines you have installed into your house. Optus may have worked a
deal with telstra to get this watched for them.
>From the IP side you couldn't tell at all.
The other problem you will face is, if you do it and get caught, bigpond
and optus have (or soon will have) business user plans and they might
decide to charge you at a business rate, and back bill you etc.
Jason
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