[dundee] Telewest Broadband 512Kb

[Andrew Clayton]

On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 19:31, Steven A. McIntosh wrote:
> On Friday 16 January 2004 18:00, Andrew Clayton wrote:
> 
> >
> > The contentions are different and the way the traffic flows is
> > different. IIRC everybody on the same bit of cable sees everyone elses
> > traffic (a bit like a LAN, but in an uncontrolled environment) which
> > isn't ideal.
> 
> If its like a LAN although the data is broadcast to all IP addresses, only the 
> one that has the card with the correct MAC address can answer, or have I 
> completely misunderstood the basics of TCP/IP networking.
> >

Kind of, a network card can go into promiscuous mode, whereby it will
see all data on that network segment.


> > Plus BY do all kinds of nasty stuff to your traffic.
> >
> Such as ?
> 

Such as...

Forcing all outbound port 80 (at least) connections through a proxy. 


> Regards
> 
> Steven
> 


Andrew