I'd like to apologise for what was probably some really bad advice, and
thank those people who made that clear :)
Not that explanations make up for lack of paranoia, but my own exposure
to real use of DSL is limited. It's just being rolled out in my neck of
the woods. The modems that Ellensburg Telephone plan to offer come in
network, and USB flavors. The network model does NAT itself, so it's
basically a secure firewall/hub all by itself. Local traffic is not
broadcast.
>From accounts I'd heard of, cable modems are usually configured to
accept only traffic for IP's that it knows are local, and broadcast only
data to IP's that are not local. It didn't clearly register that some
modems may not behave in this fashion.
I stand corrected.
MSG
PS: Out of curiosity, how many of you DSL users can actually use
tcpdump, or (gasp) ngrep, to watch what your neighbors are doing??
I can see it now... People in a network segment getting an email
w/Subject "I know what you did last summer...."
<insert long list of adult-only sites for yourself.>
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