On Mon, 12 Jul 1999 10:29:49 -0700 Daemeon Reiydelle wrote:
>
> This problem is endemic and inherent to ALL cable companies because each
> segment (more or less a few block radius) is a common subnet. Some of
> the providers (@work but not for the @home service) provide VPN as an
> (extra cost of course) option. Those of you who support home offices et
> al need to be very carefull that your at-home workstations don't dial-up
> to your office while having a cable modem connection as well: I have
> reproduced bridging going on in some configurations of Win95 (I don't
> use 98, NT seems immune unless forwarding is enabled). We know that this
> is't supposed to happen but ...
Do tell? What about hybrid co-ax and fiber systems make this problem
inherent to ALL cable systems? What about encryption? Time/space
division multiplexing?
I am truly curious. If you don't reply, I will go with my initial
assumption that you have little real understanding of the topic.
fletcher
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