[lug] how to track forged packets in a virus spoof

[Nate Duehr]

Mr Viggy wrote:

> Interesting you should mention filtering.  When I asked my ISP what a 
> "VPN safe static IP address" was, they told me that they would "remove" 
> all the filters from my IP.
> 
> At the time I didn't think anything of it.  But now I'm thinking that 
> perhaps my ISP performs this filtering you speak of (they certainly 
> don't filter incomming crap; I get scanned and probed ALL the time).
> 
> Viggy

That sounds more like they filter certain port numbers, since in a VPN 
connection you'd be using your assigned IP address and tunneling other 
IP addresses through the encrypted "pipe" inside your normally-addressed 
and routed packets.

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