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From: AMillar@cup.portal.com (Alan DI Millar)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: UUPSI's new rules
Message-ID: <40593@cup.portal.com>
Date: 27 Mar 91 01:48:18 GMT
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>>The result: No one can
>>TELNET/FTP to your site. It seems to be a trivial problem for them to 
>>reprogram their routers to know what POP each of their customers  is assigned
>>to and send any queries/connection requests to that POP when a connection is
>>requested to one of their customers. The worst that can happen is: NOT
>>RESPONDING - TIMED OUT.
>
>I'm not sure if cisco/proteon/wellfleet/nsc would agree that it is
>trivial to reprogram their routers; however, on-demand Internet
>access is not trivial either.

Funny, I though trivial on-demand Internet access was the whole point
of the dial-up IP code I recently saw on Usenet.  The Telebit
NetBlazer seems to think it's pretty trivial...  (For those who haven't
seen it, the NetBlazer is a dial-up IP router.  It uses dial-up modems
to establish IP connections using SLIP or PPP.  I'm not affiliated
with Telebit; I just think it's a neat product)

- Alan Millar