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On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 10:40:10PM +0000, E.B. Dreger wrote:
> > This is hard because they are selling bandwidth ("watch
> > video") so they can't really cap the downloads, and they are
> > selling always-on so they can't measure by time conveniently
> > either. So they try to get the "bandwidth hogs" through
> > contractual means. Comcast prohibits VPNs, and prohibits
> > ~"attaching to another network", as examples. If you use too
> > much bandwidth, they will use these to drop your service.
>
> There it is... how many bits is the customer actually moving?
>
> As for the person who mentioned modifying Linux IP code to alter
> the port range... it's a simple set of sysctl tunables in BSD
> (at least FreeBSD).
And it just came to my mind, a solaris machine uses by default
high port numbers to open tcp connections:
[email protected]:~[15] > ndd /dev/tcp tcp_smallest_anon_port
32768
That settings determines which port number it uses to open
outbound connection from what I know.
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Regards, Ulf.
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