Cable modem - Secure mail

[Adam McDougall]

Oh I bet you just wish you could get 100bt to your home! Keep dreaming 
along with the rest of us ;)

On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Marcel Kunath wrote:

> Which makes me wonder. Do all TCI customers have still 10Mb modems? They
> upgraded to 100Mb but are we ever gonna get different modems?
> 
> > > On Tue, Sep 12,
> 2000 at 05:55:49AM -0400, Sean
> wrote: > > I don't think LanCity's are the only modem's that do that. The modem
> > > itself is a bridge between the LAN and your machine, but the actual
> > > network is using a bus toplogy rather then a star topology network where
> > > you could use a switch to control traffic by MAC addresses. Therefore
> > > packet sniffers would work and as long as you were sitting on the same
> > > segment you were trying to sniff.
> >
> >     Right, but the cable modem acts as a bridge, so
> >     any interface that you can sniff traffic on is
> >     going to be behind that bridge. Regardless of
> >     the network topology in use, the only time you
> >     should be able to sniff traffic coming across a
> >     cable modem (or any bridge) is if it's destined
> >     for your local MAC address(es) or if the bridge
> >     is not properly configured.  I have seen this
> >     (incorrect) behavior on a few LanCity modems that
> >     TCI configured for use with METS.  However, the
> >     ineptness of some technical staffer is hardly
> >     something that's specific to any one make or
> >     model of cable modem. :)
> >
> >
> > PaulM
> >
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