On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 09:37:01AM -0500, Joel Rosenberg wrote: > On Saturday 13 April 2002 09:10 am, you wrote: > > I've got attbi.com and all I see is broadcast traffic. Certainly no POP. > > Do you really see all the other traffic? > > > > Yup. > I beg to differ, You do not see other peoples POP traffic, you might see your own, but that's about it, otherwise you'll see a few things: 1) broadcast ARP 2) broadcast DHCP requests (sometimes filtered ) 3) traffic meant for your network AT&T goes so far as to block 137-139 so that all the windows boxes of the world aren't able to broadcast their crap onto your lan. AT&T also implements BPI (encryption) between the cable modem and the head-end systems. -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://techmonkeys.org/~poptix GPG public key 0x01938203