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The idea sounds like a great one, I have some wonderful success posting with the hun and have enjoyed the fruits of my sites being posted there.
Other TGP owners, however, may not, I should say do not, adhere to the idealistic view that the hun has upheld. Giving out any information to these guys comes with a certain level of risk. Even incorporating the checksum idea...a good hacker could defeat that with the right script. I have worked in internet security for quite some time...so...where does that leave you?
Unless you are willing to invest in Cisco IOS and HIP technology...you leave yourself a bit wide open. Packets with checksums are detectable and it wouldn't take Albert Einstein to devise a script to defeat it. Kinda like the sniffers we use to monitor network usage.
I agree on one point tho, less cheaters would provide opportunities for more honest webmasters...incorporating the technology to weed them out is certainly a major undertaking, maybe beyond the means of a smaller webmaster.
With the throughput the Hun has, no PIX firewall is going to cover it...you are talking about enterprise level firewalls...software firewalls are sitting ducks for serious hackers...easy to defeat.
Just some thoughts from a guy who does WAN design all day long.
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