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To: ToySoldier who wrote (28508)	10/7/1999 12:40:00 AM
From: Scott C. Lemon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

Hello ToySoldier, > I guess you have not read @HOME's policies. Oops ... wrong again ... I have two relatives where I have had @Home installed ... and yes, I read their policies ... > Now there I know your wrong. WHY - my buddy - just today in fact - > told me that he just received his warning letter that they have > identified his port to have a NAT and FTP server in use. I'll believe the FTP server any day ... that one is common sense. It is simple to analye the access patterns and heavy usage patterns. After that, a simple protocol analyzer can identify incoming TCP connection requests. You simply look for the inbound TCP SYN packets and the responses ... done. You are then identified as a server. Now as for the detection of NAT, I failed to read in your message the proof that you are providing that they actually know this. There are ways that they could assume this due to outbound port usage patterns, but that could be easily masked. I would argue that you are trying to "prove" something due to a threatening letter ... please provide more than that ... > He was told to shut it down or they will shut him down. Yep ... servers are definitely against the policies ... unless you know how to talk with them nicely ... ;-) > So sorry - but @home is not as advanced and visionary to your > thoughts of how an ISP should be treated as you thought. Ah, but they are! But they do not currently implement, in many areas, the cable modems capable of throttling connections. Remember, this is new technology ... as we discussed ... Scott C. Lemon