recognizing a router

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plapine

Is it possible for my internet provider to recognize that they
send an ethernet signal to me via my home router and not directly
to my
Network Adapter ? I want to hide from my provider the fact that I
am using a router.
 
I don't know what ISP you have but it's ok to have a router with your
service. It's only using one IP address and the rest of your LAN is using
"fake" ip addresses assigned by the router. However, if you're confusing a
router with a switch, then I think that could possibly be a problem, at
least with my ISP it is. I have Comcast. They allow routers, but not a
switch. With a switch, it sends out a different IP address for each
computer and if they find out they'll charge you for those additional
addresses. I ran into this problem about 5 years ago but fortunately they
did not charge me. I just went out and bought a router. So technically,
you're not hiding from them because they don't care if you use a router.

HTH,
newtechie
 
Well, I will certainly clone MAC number from NA to router as our
provider does not allow private routers, but also there is
something else I have in mind. I have heard that some bug in a
router firmware makes it possible romotely to distinguish a router
from a network adapter by sending some packets increasing the
router internal number until it reaches a maximum and the router
answers back that the counter cannot increase any more. Perheps
there are other tricks used to detect a router? I need to take all
possible precautions or my IP disconnects me for good.
 
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