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Re: Time Warner cable



 On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 11:08:05AM -0400, Scott Ehrlich wrote: 
> On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Boland, John wrote: 
> 
> >how can nat be detected? 
> >would you have to inspect the packet contents? 
> 
> I would gather multiple MAC addresses coming from a single IP? 

MAC addresses are local to ethernet broadcast domains; when a 
router routes, all the ethernet packets are emitted from the 
router's NIC's MAC address. 

> Or, if snmp community string is set to "public", they can likely inspect 
> your system.  Happened to me once on RCN when I was on the phone with 
> support.  Taught me to change my snmp string. 

Erm, yeah. And don't allow SNMP on an outbound interface. 

-dsr- 


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