well maybe your ISP uses a Token Ring network which got broken and now the
Token is missing...just joking...anyway, some ISP's provide a default
username and password to be used only to register your account in the
network, or testing your bandwidth...If that's the case it's surely a
security issue, but it's your ISP that should be worried about...
Regards,
Miguel Albuquerque
Network Administrator
CODaLIS SA
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Raicu Andi
13.12.2005 09:17
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[suse-security] PPPoE. Is this illegal what has happened to my pc? (really
security stuff)
Hello all.
I live in Romania, in the city of Pitesti. There, the (probably)
best ISP is RDS. Now, RDS gives us internet trough PPPoE, which
requires an user and a password. Since it's the hollidays now, I
forgot to pay my bill and they cut my account off. I'm SURE I haven't
payed it. After a fresh format (installing SUSE10), when I was
installing, I set-up my pppoe connection (dsl-like). After the
installation is done... suprize: I could browse the web. BUT kinternet
reports me that I'm NOT connected, and I don't have other ways of
connecting, and I don't know other accounts.
When I downloaded the ISOs, sometimes windows reseted the pc (stupid
win!) and some rpm were corrupted (kernel source, kpim etc.) and were
not installed due to the md5 checks.
I usually have 128kbps and download with 15-16KB/s, but now I have
like 4-5KB/s.
I can't understand what is going on! Please excuse me if this is not
a security-related issue (even I can't explain how I got connected to
the net...) , but I gotto find out what has happened.
Thank you all in advance!
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