This bears some resemblance to copyrighted software that is free for the
home user, yet costs money for the corporate one, even though the
user can just-as-well download the home-user SW and run it for corporation
uses.
Too expensive to actually check, so in most cases you just don't bother,
only quoting your official line to your existing or potential customers
and generally trusting the honesty of your customers to pay you when
appropriate (And Israel is definitely a wonderful, albeit unprofitable,
place to go about with that idea).
The difference is that ISP's are by far less profitable businesses than
software developers. For them, such "NAT piracy" could easily prove a
financial death blow. espicially if every such pirate is one juicy
business less to milk for money on one side, and one more
round-the-clock broadband hog throughout the day. For all those with
software-piracy ethics this may be a point to consider.
:-)
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On Fri, 25 May 2001, Boris Kreitchman wrote:
>
> On Fri, 25 May 2001, Oded Arbel wrote:
>
> > There was an ISP in Singapure or something that prevented its home users
> > from doing NAT, but this really isn't the thing here in Israel -
> > Like so many has said - the ISP has no way to check - nor do they care -
> > if you use 1 computer at home, or 3 through NAT. what the ISPs are trying
> > to prevent is small buisnesses connecting through ADSL on NAT.
>
> I believe there is a way to check that some user has number of computers
> behind NAT. Although all outgoing packets will have same source IP address
> some applications (for example Gnutella) may send inside of packet
> internal IP address of computer they are running on. And packets from same
> real IP containing inside different internal IPs most likely passed NAT.
> I doubt that any ISP will ever bother to investigate your packets to check
> that you're using NAT, but saying that it's completely undetectable isn't true.
>
> Bye,
> Boris
>
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