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[BLU] Re: Where is rlz.ne.mediaone.net?



Niall,

Can you please explain exactly what this does for you and how it works
with your ISP (assuming M1)?  I'm curious.

Chuck Young
GTE Internetworking

On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Niall Kavanagh wrote:

> Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 07:23:10 -0500 
> From: Niall Kavanagh <NKavanagh at psgroup.com>
> To: 'David Kramer' <david at kramer.ne.mediaone.net>, discuss at Blu.Org
> Subject: RE: [BLU] Re: Where is rlz.ne.mediaone.net?
> 
> You can actually forgo the second NIC, plug your cable modem into a hub, and
> attach up to three devices. Costs about $15 extra a month, and saves me a
> valuable IRQ!! ;)
> 
> Niall
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Kramer [mailto:david at kramer.ne.mediaone.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 1999 10:49 PM
> To: discuss at Blu.Org
> Subject: Re: [BLU] Re: Where is rlz.ne.mediaone.net?
> 
> 
> 
> > Perhaps mediaone decided to enforce there "no server" policy when they
> > found out that most references to a definitive firewalling site rested
> > on an ne.mediaone.net machine?  I recall them being less than open to
> > user wishes along those lines.  As for current location, I'm afraid I
> > can't be of much assistance.
> 
> M1X hasn't had that policy in a long time.  Their policy for over a year
> has been "we won't help you do it, if you need our help you should be
> able to hook up to a Windows machine for testing, and if you do anything
> that affects other users on the system, you're gonna get shut down".
> 
> So basically that means you need to set up a firewall with two network
> cards (one internal one external), don't use dhcpcd, and do know what
> you're doing.  Seems reasonable to me.
> 
> I hear RCN is a lot more restrictive.
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