Re: Hotels and debian
--- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 10:00:22PM +1000, Matt
> Chipman wrote:
...
> > connecting to our network. They have fixed ip
> addresses and therfore
> > cant connect without mods to their existing ip
> addresses.
...
> >
> > 2 of the travellers i spoke to today said the
> hotel they were staying
> > at, you could connect through the hotel network
> and get net access
> > (mainly mail) without manipulation of the existing
> ip addreses, just
> > plug in and you were on.
> Unless they're using DHCP and automatically given
> new addresses, I guess
> the hotel could be using NAT and gatewaying all
> addresses on internal
> interfaces, no matter what the IP, to the global
> internet. It sounds
> like a very dodgy practice to me ...
Since the original posted specifically said that they
had static IP addresses configured . . . . .
I thought the same thing as you - some type of global
NAT config. But how would they handle the
statically-configured Gateway addresses in the
workstations? Or deal with multiple guests with the
same static addresses? Whatever device they are using
as a hub/router would have to perform some serious
MAC-address-based magic to make this work . . . . and
I haven't heard of anything capable of doing this . .
.
Not that I have heard of everything . . .
madmac
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