Here's a nickel kid - Get a better ISP. Fuck people, if you don't vote with your feet when they do this shit eventually you'll be able to do nothing.
2009/12/1 Christopher Hilton <ch...@vindaloo.com>: > I'm having a problem running a TiVo for my mother-in-law. To save some money > she changed her ISP to AT&T. The issue is that AT&T is running some sort of > transparent web cache proxy at the base of their network and the TiVo will not > load it's daily guide data through the cache. AT&T also charges for this kind > of Tech support so getting the caching issue fixed is not an option. > > I'm running my firewall on OpenBSD and my in-laws have a similar firewall > setup. I have already setup an IPSEC VPN between their house and mine. The > setup looks like this: > > > Tivo ----> [ In laws fw ] ---> ( Internet ) <--- [ my fw ] --- my net > > The firewall setup is for partially for my convenience. I want to seamlessly > get to my servers when I'm over there for a bit of time. Their default gateway > sends them to the internet through their AT&T connection but can also get to > things on my network. If the tunnel goes down the internet works fine but they > cannot see things in my house. > > What I would like to do is arrange for their TiVo to pass all of it's traffic > through the tunnel and out through my firewall since my ISP is a bit easier to > deal with. > > -- Chris > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > "There will be an answer, Let it be." > e: chris -at- vindaloo -dot- com
