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Hello all, 

I have been running a masqing linux in my home for over a year. I have some
friends interested in the technology, too. One of them is having a cable
modem provider, and it stays in the cable modem licence agreement that only
ONE computer may use the cable network's services via one modem. 
Well lets assume that I can get the cable modem under linux there (who
knows what for strange cable modems there are in Hungary ;), and I ignore
this licence agreement, and masq a few other computers, is there an obvious
way for the provider to detect that we are breaking the rules and having
more computers behind the server? 
The only way I could think of trying to guess that there is some kind of
masquerading or proxying is that I would check the higher ports >60000, and
if there is lots of traffic, it can be masquerading. I think this could be
eliminated if I changed the starting and ending ports in the ip_masq.c to
lower values. What other things could a cable provider do to find out that
I'm masqing? And what could I do to prevent that?

TmL

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