Re: Shared DSL connection

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From: Hal Burgiss
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 00:36

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On Tue, 19 Sep 2000 20:24:04 -0400, Randy S. <rswitt@ufl.edu> wrote:
>Whoa, careful!  This is very misleading.  First of all, I highly doubt
>they run "sweeps" but if they did, they could NEVER see more than one
>MAC address on a single IP.  This is not how NAT or TCP/IP works.  If
>you are getting this info from a help desk rep (it has happened!) they
>are sadly misinformed, or are purposefully spreading bad info.

Also, everyone on this group is either running a home LAN and sharing
connection, or trying to. Never has this caused a problem for anyone as
far as BS is concerned, at least that has been reported. (DHCP broadcast
spamming notwithstanding pre secure ARP). 

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Hal B
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 hburgiss@bellsouth.net
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From: hburgiss@bellsouth.net (Hal Burgiss)
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Subject: Re: Shared DSL connection
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