[KLUG Members] at-home cops, evading the

[Bill]

Does anyone know how to evade the at-home cops? I want to run a LIGHTLY 
loaded website from my static at-home address. This is just to share 
family photos, news, my resume, etc and will never see much traffic. I 
have 700 megs of leased commercial space but, to eliminate any tough 
questions from the IRS, I don't want to use it for personal use. More than 
that, I have a 10 gig HD and a 10 MB/s connection sitting on the desk to 
my left that is essentially 100% unused capacity.

I have crawled all over the com_cast-at-home web site and can not find a 
plan that will permit this. I thought, from the way the sales techie 
spoke, that I was getting this right; but the TOS agreement says 
otherwise. I want the experience of running a web site from home ... to be 
able to point an employer to it as proof of competence.

I have a static address into a router, a spare machine with nic etc, 
Mandrake 8.0 and Apache loaded & working. I BRIEFLY opened port 80  
--built into the Linksys router-- and had my son grab a page I had placed 
there ... it all works ... then closed the port down again.

Since I can not find a way to do this openly, I am looking for a way to 
evade their detection software. It seems I should be able to coax Apache 
into listening on a high port and passing that port address around the 
family. Maybe someone knows of a different method or can tell me why this 
one won't work?

Bill
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