On 15 Aug 2000, at 13:43, Valerie Leveille wrote:
> I've seen alot of talk about cable modem security (or lack of) and I've got
> an interesting twist to the story. I'm curious if anyone else has run
> across this.
>
> I have cable modem service at home. I have a firewall set up and
> occasionally I connect through a VPN tunnel to a local office or to the
> corporate office to transfer files or to download email. Well....my cable
> modem provider just changed the subscriber agreement. Basically it says
> that if I use a VPN or a VPN tunneling protocol on their network my service
> will be terminated! I can't believe that I'm going to have to change
> providers because I'm protecting my data!
>
> Has anyone else run into this?
Around here, if the cable company did that, they'd lose lots of
customers. Texas A&M has a VPN setup so that students,
faculty, and staff can access the campus network better. Some of
the network is available without it, but some of it cannot be
accessed from off campus without the VPN. I also frequently run a
second VPN connection to a private company for work purposes.
The local cable company has recognized that if they actually try to
enforce certain provisions of the AUP, they're going to have
problems with their customers.
For instance, they assert that servers are not allowed. What they
really want is no high bandwidth servers available to the general
public. But they have acknowledged that we can run servers for
our own personal use. When I subscribed to the service, I pointed
out that I run quite a few services from my computer and they never
had a problem with that.
For instance, I run www, ftp, smtp, pop3, dns, and syslog services
as well as anything I may be developing and told them so. Most of
these allow connections from selected ip addresses or blocks only,
so it would be difficult for them to actually check some of them.
Eric Johnson
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