> What, you mean someone hacking into my fridge, and turning on the
> ice maker?

Or turning off the cooler... or freezing the beer...

> I'm not so sure about IPCHAINS - soon, your broadband providers
> might not let you use it.
> @Home only lets me use their web page and email from the computer
> connected directly to
> the cable modem - not the other 4 behind that computer! Unless,
> that is, you pay for extra
> IP addresses... to a maximum of 2 extras per cable "modem"...

And you put up with that?  I use @Home too.  Ip masquerading is a wonderful
thing.  One box talks to the cable modem and runs SMTP, POP3, Apache, DNS
(three domains), firewall and ip masq, etc. as well as backing up the <ick>
NT box.  As many machines as I need at any given moment behind that...  one
IP address.  And I've never once used their email box - why would I?

Dale