From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Dec 2 16:11:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mail.fil.net (mail.fil.net [202.57.102.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB93F14CCD for ; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 16:11:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from aLan@fil.net) Received: from fil.net ([202.57.102.6]) by mail.fil.net (Netscape Messaging Server 3.62) with ESMTP id 266; Fri, 3 Dec 1999 08:08:41 +0800 Message-ID: <38470A07.3B52D50B@fil.net> Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 08:08:39 +0800 From: "aLan Tait" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin Day Cc: "freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Chat Only??? References: <199912021550.JAA28909@celery.dragondata.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Kevin Day wrote: > least ports 6659-6670. Also make sure that ircd can connect back to their > identd port. "identd port" - Is that port 113 or 194 - or both? > > This will prevent irc/icq users from transferring files between each other > though, since the clients negotiate random port numbers. "Random" - How random? This might be acceptable... "Negotiate" - Does it look till it finds one it can use, or just says, "use this random port" and if it fails, it fails... The "Chat Only" service is a matter of allowing a "cheap" service that will get people interested enough to buy the hardware (modem) so they can later expand to full Internet access. Also, there is a demand, and we are to small to not pay attention. (i.e. we need the money!) > > You know this really won't stop someone from using other services as well. I > could bind a socks proxy or PPP over TCP link to a port in that range, and > do whatever I wanted. :) Well yea, except our customers have a hard time configuring dial-up networking in Win98 when our portmaster will accept all default settings! The idea is that a novice would have a hard time using it... Our ISP is located where everyone is a novice - even me! :) aLan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message