On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 04:08:25AM +0200, Thomas Eibner wrote: > On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 05:39:45PM -0500, Austad, Jay wrote: > > http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1436/byt20010926s0003/1001_bar.html > > > > I still have to do a writeup on what me and some friends had figured out. > > It takes advantage of multiple connections to the internet so you go out the > > closest available connection, and implements security other than WEP since > > WEP is fairly hopelessly broken. > > Is it just me or does some of that story just sound a little to good to > be true? > > 10 Mbit home connection on which he can just load 70-80 people's traffic > onto for free? (I know he says he gets it for bartered services, but > what is he doing that will get him this connection?) > > "* A web/mail/Usenet/IRC/bind 9.1 cluster running LVS (Linux Virtual > Servers, www.lvs.org) on 5 rack 1U computers. I chose no-name rack units > that have been sitting around idly in my lab. Each has 512 MB of RAM, > 18-GB internal disk, and two NICs." - oh the horror of having 5 rack > mount servers just sitting around. > > It might just be me, but I don't see this just happening. He's even > saying electronics are expensive in Isreal, but a 10Mbit connection > isn't? Btw, has a 10Mbit and is running his website (www.moelabs.com) of an adsl in Italy? $host www.moelabs.com www.moelabs.com A 212.41.207.16 19 01.72.adsl.mi.galactica.it (212.41.192.10) 139.673 ms 188.558 ms 141.002 ms 20 212-41-207-16.adsl.galactica.it (212.41.207.16) 198.868 ms 229.594 ms 233.830 ms He does however seem to be a "reviewer" of equipment from major manufactors of hardware, which might be why he has this kind of equipment. -- Thomas Eibner <http://thomas.eibner.dk/> DnsZone <http://dnszone.org/> mod_pointer <http://stderr.net/mod_pointer>