On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Dennis M. Gray wrote: > A friend in the USA has been told that DSL is more secure than cable > modem. Are there anything to back up this claim? All opinions solicited.
Probably for Windows users. ADSL gives you a dedicated line to the exchange. Cable is shared with your neighbours, similar in effect to being plugged into the same HUB, therefore any blocking of known 'problem' ports such as SMB/CIFS - aka Windows file sharing, is probably done between 'HUBs' on Cable. When I had a cablemodem I could see broadcast traffic, arp requests and all sorts of packets that should have been kept local to the subscriber. -- ---<GRiP>--- Web: www.arcadia.au.com/gripz Phone/fax: 02 4950 1194 Mobile: 0408 686 201 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
