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

[Don Kramer]

Yes mine is bridged but I have phone with them, the phone works fine .... I
never had to specify that .... they just bridged the modem but Digital
Voice kept working.


On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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