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On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Morgan Reed wrote:
On 6/20/07, Tommy May <tommymay@comcast.net> wrote:
Issue - A standard nessus scan or nmap will choke my service from a
standard home based cable modem service.
You will not likely find anybody who will be willing to allow this.
I need to have a solid provider that is "used to dealing with pen-test like
customer businesses"... is there someone that you all may be able to
recommend that won't cost an arm and a leg and will meet the requirements?
(i.e. one that's home based, allows it to happen, has pen-testing
customers. and doesn't cost any more than 100.00 a month).
I highly doubt you will find one.
Actually, it can be done, I have with a couple of different ISP's in a
couple of different states over time. Best luck is with smaller mom/pop
shops whom you have developed a good working relationship with. YMMV...
Of course, bandwidth as well as RAM on the modem/router is a restriction
as well. This can be worked around, though, it often calls for off hours
testing and launching a scan and heading to bed while it completes
<smile>. Most cable business contracts start at about $150+ a month
though.
And if I recall over the years, comcast was one of the most restrictive
cable providers as well.
Any words of wisdom would be greatly appreciated.
My best suggestion would be to find a permissive shell account or get
a co-lo server with it's own connection and use that (I have a root
shell on a tier 2 system that I use for these activities).
You're unlikely to find any ISP who will do this for you so your best
bet is to go up a tier or two and get an unrestricted connection
attached to a remote server, you'll still have to read the contracts
carefully though.
co-los are a good way to go and one can go in with others on a co-lo
server setup to help divide costs. ISP's with shell access are not as
common as they were about 15 or so years back...
Thanks,
Ron DuFresne
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