Actually, initial studies of the security on Optus left a lot to be desired. There were many reports of people stealing the IP address of other users and using this to avoid clocking up their own bandwidth usage (and the poor bloke who owned the IP address would get slugged with the excessive bandwidth, and probably disconnected).
Now it appears they are doing their accounting based on MAC address - still not good enough since it is very easy to change the MAC address of a cable modem to that of another user. This works providing the other user is not connected. Having said that, the Optus policy on disconnection is that they have no problem with people reconnecting again - they just want you to pay the connection fee again. Matt At Thursday, 18/10/2001 09:19 PM (+1000), Phillipus Gunawan wrote: >Ok ok& so, that s mean only Optus can offer such as the features that I want& > >Yes, I ve been disconnected twice, that s because at that time all of my friends try >to get something from the Internet. > >Usually we can share the download day each other& just accidentally this time we are >not so lucky > >Is there any Optus Cable personnel reading this message? I m willing to get the >connection again& > >Thanks for any kind of replied of the first message -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
