[NTLUG:Discuss] [ms.g@noitacude.com: [sb1116] ALERT: Texas "super DMCA" movingthrough the legislature]

[Rob Apodaca]

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> I saw this in my EULA too, in the same packet that had an advertisement for 
> "Whole Home AT&T Broadband -- powered by Linksys"
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I remember seeing an ad on tv which said the same thing... att home networking
powered by linksys. It had a picture of a linksys router. To me, this implied
that it was ok by att to use a nat router to connect multiple pc's to one
connection. On their website, as you mention, they 'suggest' a method to
connected multiple pc's. That method consists of a hub and purchasing
additional ip addresses - obviously this yields more money for them. Now att
is comcast. I don't see anymore of those ads so, I don't know what the deal is
now. On the other hand, I don't think they can change the policy once they
have already said its 'ok' via the tv ad.

Changing gears - What I'd like to know is even if an ISP explicitly says you
cannot do nat nor connect more than one PC without paying for each additional
PC, how would they know if you were doing it? I really don't know very much
about packets and what exactly is done to them when they go through nat...can
an ISP detect if there are multiple PC's behind a nat or even if packets are
being nat'd? Even if they could, I think you could mask that by simply putting
two nat routers in series and then placing multiple PC's behind the second
router.