Quoting Minh Van Le <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 1st question: > > Does blocking the incoming connection with my firewall actually stop me > from > paying for downstream data ? I would think not because the firewall has > to > receive the packet before denying it ... > > I think there's an icmp RFC on this, but haven't taken a look at it. >
Your end node (firewall) still gets the data. So its still downstream billable data. :(( > 2nd question: > > Is this just what everybody with a business plan / permanent connection > & IP > have to put up with ? Afraid so, however have you complained to your uplink about what is occuring. ie logged something with them to indicate a problem. This might not help you, just depends who provides the uplink. When I had bigpond direct permanent modem and had this happen to me, calling them was a waste of time as they didn't have any procedure in place to deal with it. Surely it would be a matter of putting rules on your uplink router and thus stop it hitting your node, thus not being charged. And when the above happens, it appears no one is really willing to help and you have to grin and bare it. grr. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
