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

[Scott Castaline]

It shuts off the phone as well?


On 08/12/2013 09:19 AM, Pete Hardie wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Ron Frazier (ALE)
> <atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com
> <mailto: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
>  
> 
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