From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Aug 27 15:38:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA14630 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 27 Aug 1997 15:38:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wakky.dyn.ml.org (lee@1Cust19.tnt1.manassas.va.da.uu.net [153.37.113.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA14602; Wed, 27 Aug 1997 15:37:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from lee@localhost) by wakky.dyn.ml.org (8.8.5/8.8.3) id SAA05016; Wed, 27 Aug 1997 18:34:21 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19970827183404.50652@wakky.dyn.ml.org> Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 18:34:04 -0400 From: Lee Cremeans To: Tom Samplonius Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cable Modem Connection Reply-To: hcremean@vt.edu References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.79e In-Reply-To: ; from Tom Samplonius on Wed, Aug 27, 1997 at 02:26:57PM -0700 X-OS: FreeBSD 2.2-RELEASE X-Evil: microsoft.com Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, Aug 27, 1997 at 02:26:57PM -0700, Tom Samplonius wrote: > > Who needs a service agreement? Most cablecos just filter out inbound > tcp establish (syn) packets. This also breaks ftp, but nearly every ftp > client can do passive ftp anyhow, and cablecos probably prefer you use > their proxy cache anyhow. > I wouldn't think many cable companies do that; I know of at least one server that's on a cable modem on DALnet, and it works fine in both directions. It would be just too rude IMO to do SYN filtering; it would also break things like DCC in IRC, since it uses FTP-style port negotiation [feel free to move this to chat :)] -- Lee C. -- Manassas, VA, USA (WakkyMouse on DALnet #watertower) A! JW223 YWD++^i WK+++r P&B++ SL++^i GDF B&M KK--i MD+++i P++ I++++ Did $++ E5/10/70/3c/73ac Ee34/1/36 H2 PonPippi Ay77 M | hcremean (at) vt.edu FreeBSD/Linux/Unix hacker...Win95 and M$ evil! (go see www.freebsd.org) My home page: http://wakky.dyn.ml.org/~lee | finger me for geek code