You are asking for a legal advise here... Wrong place. Besides, you
don't suggest the country in question, so even a qualified lawyer
wouldn't have enough information to give answer as to the legal right of
the ISP.
What I'd do: see if same happens with other customers of the same ISP,
and if that's the case - give business to another ISP. Sure there's a
possibility to work around this but what the hell.
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George Valkov wrote:
> My ISP is poisoning the ARP cache tables on all client computers. I can see
> the MAC of the gateway all around the table:
> arp -a
> xxx.xxx.xxx.1 00-14-5e-cd-74-11 dynamic
> xxx.xxx.xxx.2 00-14-5e-cd-74-11 dynamic
> xxx.xxx.xxx.4 00-14-5e-cd-74-11 dynamic
> xxx.xxx.xxx.13 00-14-5e-cd-74-11 dynamic
> xxx.xxx.xxx.27 00-14-5e-cd-74-11 dynamic
>
> My ISP has a clause in the agreement that they can use their proprietary
> protocol, to determine if someone is sharing the internet connection or
> trying to catch and use passwords on the same network segment. I don't mind
> that, but:
>
> Does that agreement automatically grant them the legal right to poison the
> ARP table cache?
>
> Effectively re-routing the entire LAN sub-network traffic through their
> sniffers, is causing some protocols not to function (between computers on
> the same LAN sub-network). For example windows shares do not work, unless
> the two computers assign static ARP entries for each other.
>
>
> Thank You for any advice!
>
>
> George Valkov
>
>
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