[45360] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SlashDot: "Comcast Gunning for NAT Users"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Bradford)
Thu Jan 31 16:50:25 2002
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Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 16:52:28 -0500
From: Paul Bradford <pbradford@adelphia.net>
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Keith Woodworth wrote:
>
> On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Dan Hollis wrote:
>
> |+On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Marc Pierrat wrote:
> |+> It's not very enforceable, so I'd be very surprised to see much money
> |+> spent on this witch hunt.
> |+
> |+At least one provider has a fully staffed full time "anti-nat" divison
> |+now. But will they burn more cash in the nat witch-hunt than they save?
> |+
> |+I also wonder about false positives. Watch the lawsuits fly as they
> |+mistakenly cutoff non-nat customers.
>
> >From a technical standpoint how does one detect NAT users over the
> network?
Informants wherever Linksys router are sold.
>
> Keith
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Paul A. Bradford pbradford@adelphia.net