Greetings, I'm looking at getting either cable or ADSL running with Linux. The AUP for these sort of services have a no-server policy. I've heard that port scans are regularly carried out to identify those that have servers running. However, the way I see it, one could simply use ipchains to block the cable/ADSL provider from port scanning. Is it this simple, or have I missed something here? If I wanted to run something like gnapster to share some of my files, and I simply block my cable or ADSL provider from scanning on gnapster's port (using ipchains), how are they to know I have a server listening on that port? Also, the AUPs sometimes state that only one machine can be connected at once... again, using ip masquerading, how can they possibly know there's more than one machine connected? I don't wish to be antisocial and allow huge amounts of data to be downloaded from my machine... I simply would like to be able to run gnapster every now and then, ssh to my box, etc, etc. Many thanks, Petra (terribly annoyed at these AUP restrictions) Play Daily Trivia and Win BIG!! http://trivia1.jazzmonkey.com/trivia/triviaintro.htm http://www.cometmail.com -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
