[NTLUG:Discuss] DSL vs. Cable modem

[Johnie Stafford]

>>> On Mon, 13 Dec 1999 08:07:32 -0600, MadHat <madhat at unspecific.com> said:

 m> Richard Cobbe wrote:

 m> <SNIPITY-Do-Dah>

 >> > 1) Due to internet research, I believe cable connections are far less secure than DSL lines.
 >> 
 >> Really?  I certainly haven't heard anything about this.  I know some
 >> ISPs will set up a firewall for you, but I think this is a per-ISP
 >> thing.  Me, I have a DSL connection, and I'm getting friendly with
 >> ipchains, portsentry, logcheck, cfengine, and friends.
 >> 

 m> I have not hooked up eith DSL or Cable yet, so I can not speak
 m> from experience, but only from what I have read.  Supposedly, with
 m> DSL they are using smart switches such that you only get the
 m> traffic intended for your node, rather than for every node on the
 m> switch.  I don't know if the technology hasn't been ported to
 m> cable, or if the cable companies just didn't want to spend the
 m> extra money, but this is the issue I have always heard about. 

I've got DirectLink/GTE ADSL. I've watched tcpdump output and I only
seem to see traffic to and from my machines and a great deal of arp
traffic. But I don't see any traffic to or from other systems.

	Johnie