[ale] OT: What the hell is XSS in Comcast land?

[Pete Hardie]

If you can get to someone helpful at Comcast, see if they can keep the
phone service - my info is secondhand - the wife was getting things set up
while I was at work, so I did not speak to the droid directly


On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Ron Frazier (ALE) <
atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> wrote:

> below
>
> Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Ron Frazier (ALE) <
> >atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I really don't think you have to be in bridge mode.  I have 3 routers
> >> between my pc and the internet counting the comcast device.  They're
> >all in
> >> router mode, I think.  I know mine are.  At least I've never changed
> >the
> >> comcast device.  I suppose it could be in bridge mode.  Each device
> >uses
> >> dhcp to get configuration from the next.  The only gotcha would be if
> >you
> >> need to do port forwarding into the network.  The other slight
> >disadvantage
> >> if ganging routers is that there is a slight increase of latency of
> >about
> >> 10 - 20 mS per router.  If you're trying to do ultra precise time
> >setting
> >> from ntp or something, that could create additional problems.  I
> >don't do
> >> any port forwarding and I've given up worrying if my pc clock is less
> >than
> >> 500 mS off.
> >>
> >
> >For the newer devices that have the wifi+phone, bridge mode will shut
> >off
> >those "features".  I have that now b/c I have my own wifi setup and did
> >not
> >want the generic DHCP the Comcast device provided
> >
> >
> >--
> >Pete Hardie
> >--------
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> >
> >
>
> OOPS.  I guess I was mistaken about my comcast modem.  I checked and the
> wan ip reported by my last router is the same as my public ip reported by
> external websites.  I guess my comcast device is working in bridge mode and
> I didn't know it.  I do have comcast phone service though.  I wouldn't want
> to turn that off.  I think I'll just stick with my current modem for now.
>  It sounds like I might have problems with the "upgrade".
>
> That leads to an interesting question.  I wonder how the telephony traffic
> gets mixed in and what ip it has when it exits.  I wonder if it even uses
> ip to get to the comcast data center.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Ron
>
>
>
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Pete Hardie
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