Most of those home routers, and many ethernet cards allow you to spoof the MAC address, to be whatever you want it to be, so even if they query your cable modem for the address, they get nothing useful.
Too bad that evil operating system FreeBSD includes the IPSTEALTH kernel option, which doesn't decrement TTL fields. Not to mention the fact that you can tweak the initial TTL on pretty much every operating system.
Show me one packet I send that indicates that I'm running NAT. I hold that there is no undefeatable method of detection, nor any traces they could find in my traffic that I could not easily justify.
I prefer to concern myself only with issues that actually exist, not unverified ones that I read about on the Internet.
Nah, I just prefer not to worry about problems until I have reason to believe they exist. There are lots of things that could be happening, many of which are far more insidious than comcast checking to see if I'm running NAT.
Your girlfriend could be fucking a dog right now, but that doesn't mean we should go kill all the dogs.
I'd call you a fucking retard, but I'd get moderated down.
Doing this would break ARP. What your hardware router can do is spoof the MAC address of whatever the fuck it was that they first hooked your cable modem to, thus allowing you to have a Win98 machine when they install, and then hook up your entire network after they leave.
If you spoofed the cable modem's address, you'd break ARP. The cable modem would look at the destination for the packet, and it would see itself, and it would not work, at all.
Put the deck in your wallet pocket, and throw the mics and their battery box in your girlfriends purse, under some unused tampons. Or plug headphones into the deck, have some commercial music playing on the DAT, and hope they don't see the words 'digital audio recorder' on the deck. Hell, I can fit my stealth mics in pack of cigarettes, with room to spare for actual cigarettes. Be creative.
Great troll. I hope the moderator that modded this up was kidding. The only MAC address the cable modem ever sees is the external gateway of your NAT box.
Okay everybody, let's all get upset, and write 450 comments saying how evil Comcast is, on the basis of an unverified, unverifiable claim, with no technical details.
This is not a story, let's not treat it as one. It'll be a story when somebody has copies of a letter explaining that their service was cut off, due to the use of NAT. In the meantime, I can tell you that the firewall on my comcast connection has received no new exploratory packets originating at comcast servers.
Are you suggesting that slashdot posted misinformation, when they made an article titled 'FreeBSD 4.5 Released'? Come on, we all know that web journalism and the slashdot editorial team make for higher quality reporting than traditional media. That must be true, i read it on slashdot!
Is it me, or do you have to be a bit brave or stupid to run an operating system that can't even provide working links to it's release notes? Just try clicking on 'i386' or 'alpha'. 404.
I used to be a huge fan of BSD, but it seems that as people have migrated to Linux, the quality has dropped significantly and details get missed, en masse. There's a reason why Linux is more popular.
What's to stop RIAA from forcing ticketmaster and venues to ban recording devices?
Mostly the fact that TicketMaster has no reason to further alienate their clients, unless they'll make a nice pile of money from it. There's no business model that justifies implementing your paranoid delusion, relax.
As somebody who tapes, sometimes with a standard rig, sometimes with stealth equipment, I can tell you that venues already do search for recording equipment. You know that little pat-down you get, they're not just looking for guns. If they find your little Sony PCM-M1 DAT deck, and your ultra-small B&K mics, you don't get to see the show.
If you were done with it, you would've stopped posting, and showing your ignorance, or perhaps would've refuted my arguments instead of merely noting that I'm offending your delicate sensibilities.
Apparently you haven't seen downtime cost calculations. Take down the accounting system, and the ability to bill, accept payment, or ship product. Hundreds of thousands per day are lost, and that's a LOW figure.
The fact of the matter is that good infrastructure saves money. It requires fewer employees to maintain it, it scales better as new requirements emerge, and it helps ensure high uptime, which is absolutely critical, even if you're not a web retailer.
In regards to your implication that I'm an AC troll, absolutely not. I stand by my comments, and my implication that you're a fucking retard.
IDE Raid is like gluing Ford Escorts together, and calling it a Mercedes. Sure it's big, but if you want it to perform, you'll be fucked.
You'll, dedicated ATA/100 bandwidth... coming from a drive that's spinning at a maximum of 7200rpm, that doesn't have a large command queue to optimize the transfers, and usually can't effectively do more than one thing at a time. That's great. That'll be.... almost half as fast as a 15k fibre channel drive. And that 8 device multi-controller hack, that gets me almost... wow, almost 1/15th of the expansion capacity of a fibre channel controller.
IDE RAID is great for slow-speed, non-critical, single-reader/single-writer type of access. It blows for anything real. It's unfortunate that most slashdotheads don't have real jobs, so they don't understand that real servers actually have to do things, not just load mozilla and play quake.
What the fuck world do you live in, where servers don't use 10K and 15K drives? Even shitty-ass $5,000 PC-based servers have 10K drives in them. Let alone the big guns, like the SunFires, and the Sun E-series boxes.
I'm trying not to be rude, but what the fuck kind of "servers" are you talking about? Have you even ever seen a data center, the kind with the raised, non-static floors, uninterruptible power, redundant heating/air conditioning and (in a small one) a couple hundred servers?
What are you, fifteen fucking years old, and dumb enough to think you know everything?
other than the lack of a video in, a remote control designed to work as a PVR, video encoding hardware, a method to obtain and control guide data, an IR blaster and serial controller to control settop boxes and... oh wait, I just described the entirety of a PVR.
Then you weren't paying attention. First gen UltimateTV boxes didn't free space properly, thus causing them to eventually have no disk space to do anything at all. Nothing is perfect, not even Microsoft.
Yeah, I prefer for my high-end servers to be limited to two devices per controller, not 15 or 127. SCSI and Fibre Channel are where it's at. And look at all the high-end IDE based storage arrays that companies like EMC are offering... oh wait, there are none. my bad.
Go ahead, call me a troll, but the only reason IDE is even getting usable is because they're slowly implementing more and more of the SCSI command set. The SCSI interface isn't just different, it's better.
The problem is that you're using IDE, which in case you hadn't heard, sucks. If your company gives a shit about performance, there's this thing called SCSI, which blows IDE away performance-wise. Especially in the multiple-transactions on a single controller department. You should check it out!
I know some dick will moderate me down because I was rude, and I used the word 'dick' (which turns all the faggot moderators on), but it's true. If you care about speed, IDE is an inappropriate tool. Take it out of your toolbox, and forget about it.
which would of course lead to people running 5-year old software, reducing their software costs to zero, and effectively eliminating any incentive to produce new software. After all, if I were a VAR, I could sell people computers with Win95 and Office95 for $500 or the same computer with WinXP and OfficeXP for $1200, I bet I'd sell a lot more of the former than the latter.
It seems to me that most slashdotheads don't care about intellectual property beyond making sure that they can get what they want without cost.
First, the question. Why are you running the mail servers off of a dialup account? That's... terrible.
Second, the answer. Earthlink will gladly allow your sendmail to work, just set their mail server as your smarthost. It works like a charm, I use them as a backup net connection.
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Most of those home routers, and many ethernet cards allow you to spoof the MAC address, to be whatever you want it to be, so even if they query your cable modem for the address, they get nothing useful.
Too bad that evil operating system FreeBSD includes the IPSTEALTH kernel option, which doesn't decrement TTL fields. Not to mention the fact that you can tweak the initial TTL on pretty much every operating system.
I prefer to concern myself only with issues that actually exist, not unverified ones that I read about on the Internet.
Your girlfriend could be fucking a dog right now, but that doesn't mean we should go kill all the dogs.
Doing this would break ARP. What your hardware router can do is spoof the MAC address of whatever the fuck it was that they first hooked your cable modem to, thus allowing you to have a Win98 machine when they install, and then hook up your entire network after they leave.
If you spoofed the cable modem's address, you'd break ARP. The cable modem would look at the destination for the packet, and it would see itself, and it would not work, at all.
Put the deck in your wallet pocket, and throw the mics and their battery box in your girlfriends purse, under some unused tampons. Or plug headphones into the deck, have some commercial music playing on the DAT, and hope they don't see the words 'digital audio recorder' on the deck. Hell, I can fit my stealth mics in pack of cigarettes, with room to spare for actual cigarettes. Be creative.
Great troll. I hope the moderator that modded this up was kidding. The only MAC address the cable modem ever sees is the external gateway of your NAT box.
This is not a story, let's not treat it as one. It'll be a story when somebody has copies of a letter explaining that their service was cut off, due to the use of NAT. In the meantime, I can tell you that the firewall on my comcast connection has received no new exploratory packets originating at comcast servers.
Are you suggesting that slashdot posted misinformation, when they made an article titled 'FreeBSD 4.5 Released'? Come on, we all know that web journalism and the slashdot editorial team make for higher quality reporting than traditional media. That must be true, i read it on slashdot!
I used to be a huge fan of BSD, but it seems that as people have migrated to Linux, the quality has dropped significantly and details get missed, en masse. There's a reason why Linux is more popular.
As somebody who tapes, sometimes with a standard rig, sometimes with stealth equipment, I can tell you that venues already do search for recording equipment. You know that little pat-down you get, they're not just looking for guns. If they find your little Sony PCM-M1 DAT deck, and your ultra-small B&K mics, you don't get to see the show.
If you were done with it, you would've stopped posting, and showing your ignorance, or perhaps would've refuted my arguments instead of merely noting that I'm offending your delicate sensibilities.
The fact of the matter is that good infrastructure saves money. It requires fewer employees to maintain it, it scales better as new requirements emerge, and it helps ensure high uptime, which is absolutely critical, even if you're not a web retailer.
In regards to your implication that I'm an AC troll, absolutely not. I stand by my comments, and my implication that you're a fucking retard.
You'll, dedicated ATA/100 bandwidth... coming from a drive that's spinning at a maximum of 7200rpm, that doesn't have a large command queue to optimize the transfers, and usually can't effectively do more than one thing at a time. That's great. That'll be.... almost half as fast as a 15k fibre channel drive. And that 8 device multi-controller hack, that gets me almost... wow, almost 1/15th of the expansion capacity of a fibre channel controller.
IDE RAID is great for slow-speed, non-critical, single-reader/single-writer type of access. It blows for anything real. It's unfortunate that most slashdotheads don't have real jobs, so they don't understand that real servers actually have to do things, not just load mozilla and play quake.
I'm trying not to be rude, but what the fuck kind of "servers" are you talking about? Have you even ever seen a data center, the kind with the raised, non-static floors, uninterruptible power, redundant heating/air conditioning and (in a small one) a couple hundred servers?
What are you, fifteen fucking years old, and dumb enough to think you know everything?
other than the lack of a video in, a remote control designed to work as a PVR, video encoding hardware, a method to obtain and control guide data, an IR blaster and serial controller to control settop boxes and... oh wait, I just described the entirety of a PVR.
Then you weren't paying attention. First gen UltimateTV boxes didn't free space properly, thus causing them to eventually have no disk space to do anything at all. Nothing is perfect, not even Microsoft.
Yeah, I just installed some 15K RPM IDE hard drives.... oh wait, they don't exist.
Go ahead, call me a troll, but the only reason IDE is even getting usable is because they're slowly implementing more and more of the SCSI command set. The SCSI interface isn't just different, it's better.
My DirecTiVo let me pay a one-time fee instead of $10/mo also, making it far cheaper in the long term, and the price is comparable.
Sounds to me like we have fairly comparable products, except mine's still supported, and mine didn't involve me giving money to a company I hate.
Yours, on the other hand, inspired you to post bullshit on slashdot, like an idiot, because you believed the UltimateTV brochure.
I know some dick will moderate me down because I was rude, and I used the word 'dick' (which turns all the faggot moderators on), but it's true. If you care about speed, IDE is an inappropriate tool. Take it out of your toolbox, and forget about it.
It seems to me that most slashdotheads don't care about intellectual property beyond making sure that they can get what they want without cost.
FreeBSD is more secure.
FreeBSD is as fast, or faster depending on the task.
FreeBSD is more free.
FreeBSD is much easier.
There's your solution, and with FreeBSD the BSD'd codebase keeps getting richer!
Second, the answer. Earthlink will gladly allow your sendmail to work, just set their mail server as your smarthost. It works like a charm, I use them as a backup net connection.