Re:Can it be legal to create a Free X-Box network?
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If they have, they are keeping it very quiet.
Just for curiousity I have been trying to squeeze info out of Google on the way the Xbox is supposed to get its IP Stack online (bridging/tunneling/NAT/DHCP/PPPoE) without any success.
And isn't that the most important technical hurdle Xbox Live and potential free alternatives must take: to get online via every broadband ISP's access network on the planet?
It seems undoable that MS would require explicit and active cooperation from all all those ISP's to get packets routed between XBoxes and the server farms.
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If they have, they are keeping it very quiet.
Just for curiousity I have been trying to squeeze info out of Google on the way the Xbox is supposed to get its IP Stack online (bridging/tunneling/NAT/DHCP/PPPoE) without any success.
And isn't that the most important technical hurdle Xbox Live and potential free alternatives must take: to get online via every broadband ISP's access network on the planet?
It seems undoable that MS would require explicit and active cooperation from all all those ISP's to get packets routed between XBoxes and the server farms.