From: KPJ (kpj@sics.se)
Date: Tue Apr 30 2002 - 05:27:34 MDT
It appears as if <dgc@cox.rr.com> wrote:
|
|This is incorrect. Only your own packets are delivered to you on your
|dial-up or DSL connection, and all modern Cable systems only your modem
|can decrypt your packets on the RF side, and only you packets are
|delivered by the modem to your LAN.
Those who wish to find out the truth of the above statements should use
an Ethernet sniffer to sniff ALL packets coming from their cable modems,
or whatever they use.
My personal experience:
I used tcpdump <URL:http://vvv.it.kth.se/edu/gru/Internet/tcpdump.html>
to dump packets, and I can see all hosts on the external network which the
cable modem connects to.
YMMV.
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