On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:25 AM, Mandar Joshi emailmandar@gmail.com wrote:

Had seen a mail on this list a while back about someone being able to use their connection under Windows but not under Linux. Well, I looked into it. Seems like they are looking at the TTL values in the packets. I have described it here http://mndar.phpnet.us/tutorials/Tips_Tricks/ttl.html http://www.geocities.com/emailmandar/ttl.html

Great tech info. Just one question, are you going to bend over and take it? I'm just sad that instead of resolving this issue by removing such stupid artificial restrictions, a user is forced to "emulate" Windoze behavior. You know if you do that you're simply contributing to acknowledging that their connections are being used only by windoze users.

And there are no business reasons for ISPs to restrict the users to only specific OSes. Allowing a home network to share a single internet connection isn't illegal and doesn't cost the ISP anything. What it "costs" them is their imaginary incomes. They expect a home user to purchase as many lines as computers they have ( something like the digital cable is doing to us now ). These are just milking techniques and consumers shouldn't give in to them.

Last time I checked this was the Linux Mailing List and not the "bend over and take it" list!