The sticky point is wanting to run services. That means real world IP. At that point, how much traffic filtering should the ISP do? We would be intercepting *content*, a big can of worms. For the situation you describe, there isn't really a need for a real world address. A combination of NAT and tunneling back into work would suit admirably. That would also allow you to appear to the rest of the world as originating from your office, thus allowing you to make use of the facilities there. It may not be an ideal solution, but its certainly a very practical one. AFAIK, ADSL is across the IPNet network, and I think that getting anyone to introduce filtering there would be difficult :-) If you can manage to get them to do that, I'm sure a lot of us would like SNMP access to the IPNet NAS's we use...
No; it's not wanting to have your cake and eat it at all. Internet worms such as Code Red and NIMDA are a new phenomenon that probably wasn't planned for when Jetstream was developed (correct me if I'm wrong on this). Ditto DoS attacks.
What I'm asking for is simple: I want to have a useful DSL service, as I work from home a lot. However, I need some kind of defence against massive amounts of unwanted traffic. I can see that it is technically possible to provide me and other DSL users with a solution that keeps the service useful, yet helps us avoid billing nasties due to worms and DoS attacks.
In that light, to say that your options range from "tough shit, pay up" to "turn off your modem" or "settle for a neutered" DSL service, doesn't really cut it.
I'm a bit disappointed in the attitude here... what happened to listening to your customers?
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