A couple months back securityfocus ran a story on a kid out west who was being prosecuted after running a cap hack tool. As I recall the tool basically spoofed the provider tftp server and pushed a crafted config onto the modem with a much higher cap. The kid was claiming ignorance and his lawyer was trying to blame the writers of the tool and the cable provider. I didn't pay enough attention to see what happened to him.
Food for thought. Ryan -----Original Message----- From: Tom 'spot' Callaway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 2:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [TriLUG] cable modem caps locally On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 13:32, Chris Merrill wrote: > James Manning wrote: > > thing, but it "feels" (since the speed stayed pretty much dead-on > > constant) like it's a cap being done at the cable modem itself. > > Does anyone know if this is the case? I would think that the > bandwidth limitations would be enforeced at the concentrator > locations - to eliminate the temptation to tamper with the modems... Its definitely capped locally on the cable modem. Whether or not its also capped at the concentrators is anyone's guess. If I say too much more, I violate federal law. ~spot --- Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa(a)redhat*com> Red Hat Sales Engineer Sair Linux and GNU Certified Administrator (LCA) Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) GPG: D786 8B22 D9DB 1F8B 4AB7 448E 3C5E 99AD 9305 4260 The words and opinions reflected in this message do not necessarily reflect those of my employer, Red Hat, and belong solely to me. "Immature poets borrow, mature poets steal." --- T. S. Eliot _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
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