raph@panache.demon.co.uk wrote:
There is a way of (not very reliably) counting hosts behind a NAT firewall. It looks at IP IDs, which are used for re-assembling packet fragments. There is an article on it in slashdot.
But so far as NTL is concerened, be reasonable. A limit fo 1GB/day is hardly a limit.
I work from home. and have both an internal LAN behind a firewall, and VPN. I also use Radmin to support remote windows desktops. In short, I use the 'Net pretty heavily all day, every day. According to my tatty old firewall box:
firewall:~ # uptime 8:56am up 18 days, 20:13, 1 user, load average: 0.08, 0.02, 0.01 firewall:~ # ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:4B:40:xx:xx inet addr:xx.xx.xx.xx Bcast:255.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:10749442 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:5275863 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:9238 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:1330847264 (1269.1 Mb) TX bytes:1261146107 (1202.7 Mb) Interrupt:5 Base address:0x220
...I use an average of about 67MB bandwidth a day. I have an NTL 600KB broadband service.
Cheers, Laurie.