TransACT network

[Bob Edwards]

andrew at bishop.dropbear.id.au wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Kim Holburn wrote:
> 
> > One of the techs told me it would be in the reserved ip space
> > 10.x.x.x so I tried firing of a few (thousand;-) pings but got no
> > response.  If anyone wants to try grabbing a 10.x.x.x ip number
> > sometime and see if we can exchange ICMP packets;-)
> 
> As I said, I've tried sniffing the network, and there is no traffic on it
> except that related to my PPPoE link.  Doesn't matter how my end is
> configured - if I can't talk to anyone but the router, and nobody but the
> router can talk to me, and the router only wants to talk PPPoE.... we can
> either go through our respective ISPs (and pay for the privilege), or wait
> for transact to set up something else for us to connect to.
> 

TransACT is running PPPoE. This is a "Point-Point" link (hence the PPP).
Ever tried "sniffing" a PPP link? Guess what? You won't see anything
other than traffic destined to/from  your machine. It is all routed.

Just because you have an Ethernet interface coming out of the STB, don't
let that confuse you into thinking you have joined a great big city-wide
Ethernet network. All traffic needs to go through the bit Unisphere router
in Dickson and then get routed to it's destination. If you haven't actually
configured a route to your destination (ie. TransACT still haven't implemented
user-user connections yet), then you won't see any other connections than
to your ISP.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Bob Edwards.

> If you want to try anyway, I've set the IP on my external interface to
> 10.29.38.47 (netmask 255.0.0.0).  Go nuts trying to reach it.
> 
> [...]
> > He also told me they were going to use macrovision to stop anyone
> > recording video.  Good move:-(
> 
> Well, last time I tried, there was no macrovision crap.  An "evil pirate
> hacker" could tape VOD movies!  If they had any worth watching, that might
> be tempting....
> 
> I hear one can buy de-macrovising boxes for $notmuch.  Personally, I have
> a tv tuner card and a large hard disk - if I ever feel the burning need to
> record something and find it's been macrovised, I can always fall back to
> that.
> 
> Andrew