Re: @home avg download speeds

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From: Dakai
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 02:36

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"William Oertell" <oertell@pacbell.net> wrote in message
news:39AF0CDD.424A@pacbell.net...
> > I heard a commercial the other day for DSL that compared cable service
to
> > dsl, and claimed that dsl service was more secure than that of cable
> > service.  I disagree with that claim and I think any knowledgable user
would
> > disagree.  No internet connection is that secure, just ask any company
who
> > has had their firewall hacked.
> >
>    I have to disagree with this.  As I understand cable modems, my local
> node is nothing more than a local ethernet LAN.  The box my cable
> connects to and routes my packets to the Internet is directly analogous
> to a bridge or router. If my packet is intended for another computer on
> my local node, the bridge doesn't route my packet out to the Internet.
> (I realize this isn't the way most people use their computer, but the
> analogy holds).
>    Like an ethernet LAN every computer on the network sees every packet
> on it. Like an ethernet LAN there are some commands that every NIC card
> will respond to.  One of them is a broadcast ARP.  I could take down the
> entire node by constantly ARPing the whole local network.  Or if I had
> it in for a neighbor, I could continually ARP his board.  Yeah, this
> would tie up my machine, too, but most crazy people don't really care
> about the small stuff.

Whether your disagree with what I said or not, you proved my point about
security.  In fact, what was your point?

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