Gordon Messmer wrote: > It would only fix half of the problem, if it were possible to do so. > (If his provider requires DHCP, it might later lead to ip conflicts) > Giving his machines numbers on the same network would still leave open > the possibility that his cable modem is broadcasting traffic over the > cable network, leading to congestion and security exposure.
Not just a possibility, but with a hub it's for certain. Any packets coming from one of his machines will be repeated to every port in the hub, including the cable modem, which acts as a bridge, therefore copying every packet to the RFC segment. Luckily, only the upstream channel will be affected by this, and only broadcast traffic would make it back to the downstream channel. Finnaly, a correctly configured cable ISP should have the cable modems get a config that blocks broadcasts packets and this problem would not be an issue. Regards, -- Javier Gostling Ingeniero de Sistemas Virtualia S.A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fono: +56 (2) 202-6264 x 130 Fax: +56 (2) 342-8763 Mobil: +56 (9) 824-5236 Av. Kennedy 5757, of 1502 Las Condes Santiago Chile _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
