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Re: How insecure are cable connections, versus dialup?



hi ya jeffrey

On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Jeffrey Taylor wrote:

> Quoting Alvin Oga <aoga@Maggie.Linux-Consulting.com>:
> > cable ... its you and all your neighbors .... watching/sharing that copper
> > 
> 
> Can you provide evidence for this?  That cable modems run in
> "promiscuous" mode?

run tcpdump .... see if there are any ip# and connections that does
not belong to you... it's the neighbors...

c ya
alvin



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