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Re: IDG Article - Telecom JetStream Billing

From: Brian Gibbons <brian_at_outersite.co.nz>
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 19:55:23 +1200
Message-ID: <004f01c12ecd$a05e9110$c864a8c0@dserver>

>From: "Ross Dawson" <rdawson@xtra.co.nz>
>The only problem I see with the above is that in my case I don't see
>any attacks on the network side of the NAT / NAPT router. I have
>tried Zonealarm and tried it for several days and saw nothing on the
>inside network.

The following is probably illegal, the procedure is a hypothetical example
of the issue.

Grab the external IP Address of your Jetstream NAPT Router.
Shoot round to a mate that has Jetstart.
Start a continuous 64k packet size ping to your Jetstream IP.

Go home, see if Zone Alarm is logging any data (it wont be).

After a month, when the $10,000 (50gig) Jetstream bill arrives from
Telecom - ring them.

Explain that you use a Zone Alarm firewall and quote the article in IDG
where Telecom vow and declare that a firewall will protect you from excess
usage charges.

Good luck.

BG.

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