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thisgeek said:
That question has been answered on this forum but, I am still very confused about its definition, maybe one of the ISPs that uses it should try to explain ... as far as I am concerned one of the features against it is that it does not allow p2p at all?
HellTel said:
No, that is not a feature... let me explain.
IPC = Internet Protocal Connect. What it means is SAIX connects you directly to your ISP, and the ISP can then manage their/your bandwidth as they wish, they can route you wherever it's best. You authenticate with them and you go through thier network to get out onto the net. Alot of ISP's shape P2P in order to cut down on thier network traffic.
Standard... Telkom ADSL ATM => SAIX => Internet (ISP resells SAIX)
IPC... Telkom ADSL ATM => ISP => Carrier (IS / SAIX / UUNet) => Internet
Carlhead said:
Ok ok ... pardon my ignorance here but, lets see if I got it now.
Currently .... I am with SAOL 10GIG account and from what I understand is this ... I authenticate with SAOL and SAOL connects me to SAIX and from there I go on to the net.
IPC would then be ... I authenticate with SAOL that connects me to SAIX and then SAIX will connect me back to my ISP that connects me to the Internet?
Wow it gets more confusing everyday.
HellTel said:
Ok, you just made it really confusing.
You always connect to the Telkom ADSL ATM... becuse telkom provides the ADSL line / connectivity. Then Telkom either connects you to SAIX or to your ISP. The difference being, if you connect to your ISP, then they can manage you and route you where ever.
Using the south african legal system will cost you thousands of rands and more time than you can imagine.... do you know how often your docket will be lost before they give a damn? they dont even see this sort of thing as a crime when there are people getting shot in the streets
SOLUTION: install a firewall on any pc that dials into the internet, get the latest patches and change your password.
SOLUTION: install a firewall on any pc that dials into the internet, get the latest patches and change your password.
ganymede1 said:
I would have to agree, although it would be great to actually nail a few of these stupid people who hijack accounts I really do not see it actually happening. There have been a few people who have tried, so far I have not heard of any successes.
The fact that you need to get subpoenas and open police cases just so you can peruse your own login activity seems daft, if Telkom really wanted to reduce this account theft problem they could simply add the phone number that a connection originated from into the online stats.
I have a few accounts, these accounts are not always used by me, nor are they always used from the same location. This makes it somewhat impossible to tell if one of the valid users overused the account, or if some hijacker used it. With a phone number attached to each login I could at least verify the location and from that deduce the actual user, and if in doubt I could just call the number and find out who it was. This would make me a lot happier, and would eliminate false alarms.
For those ISPs who operate their own RADIUS servers for authentication I would guess adding the phone number is trivial. Calling-Station-Id attribute in the stats pages please...
