Re: chaging your @home IP address... could you take a bunch of them....probably... could you get something from it...maybe

From: b_1995 (b_1995at_private)
Date: Thu Feb 07 2002 - 19:19:50 PST

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    Scratch that... for some reason, it seems to work when I bounce my
cablemodem..

----- Original Message -----
From: "b_1995" <b_1995at_private>
To: "Jon Zobrist" <kgbat_private>; <vuln-devat_private>
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 7:11 PM
Subject: Re: chaging your @home IP address... could you take a bunch of
them....probably... could you get something from it...maybe


> I tried doing this but was unsuccessful.
>
> OS - Win98, Win2k
> cablemodem - Terayon
> ISP - Shaw
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jon Zobrist" <kgbat_private>
> To: <vuln-devat_private>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 2:30 PM
> Subject: Re: chaging your @home IP address... could you take a bunch of
> them....probably... could you get something from it...maybe
>
>
> > ps, I tested this on my friends BSD box that's hooked up to his cable.
> > Uploads to the same IP were at 8 KBytes and 2-3Kbytes from 2 sources,
> > uploads to 2 different IPs on the same box both went at 10K which means
it
> > seems to work...
> >
> > -Jon
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jon Zobrist" <kgbat_private>
> > To: <vuln-devat_private>
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 2:52 PM
> > Subject: chaging your @home IP address... could you take a bunch of
> > them....probably... could you get something from it...maybe
> >
> >
> > > I just read the @home IP change instructions in the Hacker's Digest
and
> an
> > > interesting idea came to me...
> > >
> > > If @home uses IP addresses in parts of their bandwidth (upload)
> > throttling,
> > > then could you just take more IP addresses and get more bandwidth?
> > >
> > > Now, I don't have @home :( so I can't test it, but can anyone out
there
> > test
> > > this?
> > >
> > > If so, I'd say the race is on to get @home addresses for more
> bandwidth..
> > >
> > > Jon Zobrist
> > > Security Consultant
> > > Bluesun Networks, LLC
> > > kgbat_private
> > > 801-856-9300
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>

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