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Remotely Counting Machines Behind A NAT Box

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the you-knew-this-was-coming dept.

Overtone writes "Steve Bellovin of AT&T Labs Research has published a paper showing how to remotely count the number of machines hiding behind a NAT box (in IMW 2002, the Second Internet Measurement Workshop). Your friendly DSL or cable broadband provider could implement this technique to enforce their single-machine license clause. Bellovin explains how to change the NAT software to defeat the measurement scheme, but the fix is complicated and unlikely to appear in commercial home gateways anytime soon."

2 of 574 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Possible fix by geekd · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    After reading the document (something that is rarely done among posters)

    This is a common problem on slashdot, but don't put it all down to user lazy-ness. I'd love to read this article, but it's unavailable due to the slashdot effect.

    This happens all the time, as you well know. How are we supposed to read and discuss an article when we can't get to the article to read it.

    Therefore, jump directly to "discuss".

  2. Re:Like the RIAA... by dotgod · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    1. Write post that somehow bashes RIAA no matter what the original article was about.
    2. ???
    3. Karma!