Re: SlashDot: "Comcast Gunning for NAT Users"

[Matt Barrette <mattbar () netins net>]

To add more fuel to the fire, how does one combat the issue of "stolen" IP
addresses. Stolen IP's are worse to me than a user doing NAT.

Slightly intuitive users could figure out that their IP is one of a /24 and
just statically assign one to their other machine with out paying for it,
and worse take somebodies IP and make that user non-functional. I know the
cable modem service where I live will allow this type of activity.




At 01:37 PM 1/31/2002 -0800, 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?
>
> Keith
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