How do ISP's track customers?

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Author: rosesonmygrave PostPosted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 7:25 pm    Post subject: How do ISP's track customers?
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Before anyone asks, im not doing anything dodgy. Im making a report for uni on the topic.

I know that ISP's would log the IP address of users but how would they resolve the IP to an address?

cheers.

Author: krugger PostPosted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 7:52 pm    Post subject:
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An ISP has to keep by law a backlog of who had a certain IP on their network for a certain amount of time. (6 months to 2 years are common)

They can track you, because your modem has to be configured with either a serial number or with a username and password to establish the connection to your ISP.

For cable modems you might be interested in the DOCSIS standard. ADSL usually has a PPPoE connection with username and password.



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