Paul wrote:
[snip]
There are countless email systems where the email address (or local-part
of the email address) is the username. Is it any worse to give away the
username part of the ADSL connection details?

It sounds likely that this is the remote gateway of the PPP connection.
In any case, I would be very surprised if it was anything to worry about.

Alex

Paul wrote:
Keeping it safe could also mean not losing it, as opposed to revealing
it to others. That said, I do see your point about seeming "a tad daft".

The point is, it is attached to your router (ie WAN side), not to your
network (ie LAN side), which makes it no different to the rest of the
Internet.

Alex

Paul wrote:
Most likely because it is listing all "directly attached" devices and
mistakenly calling them "LAN devices". That is, an error in reporting
not functionality.

Alex

On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 12:03:05 +0100, Paul wrote:

Really? Have you managed to login from the WAN side with it?

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Paul wrote:
Only if it is possible to get as far as providing those details, which
is unlikely in the extreme (except possibly from some specific IP
address/range, as I mentioned in a reply to Herman in this thread).

Run a portscan against your router from the Internet - which ports are
open? (If you have a single IP and use NAT, this should be as easy as
going to a suitable website from a computer on the LAN.)

Alex