Re: Hotels and debian
On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 11:55:47 EDT, Bob Hauck writes:
>At least the Mariott Courtyard in Red Bank, NJ, does not require DHCP. I
>just plugged in my Debian laptop with the same static IP I use in the
>office and it worked.
>
>I'm pretty sure they are doing NAT. As for the gateway issue, what
>happens if they put their gateway in promiscuous mode and just NAT
>everything outbound?
The thought of such a setup makes my brain hurt. Please stop it ;)
Wouldn't that require something along the lines of "send the same
ARP-answer regardless for which IP the question was"?
<shudder>
> There must also be some monitoring of active ports
>as well, since you get billed even if you didn't visit their web page <G>.
Probably they have a dedicated switchport per room and do accounting on
that. At least, I'd design it that way.
cheers,
&rw
--
/ Ing. Robert Waldner | Security Engineer | CoreTec IT-Security \
\ <rw@coretec.at> | T +43 1 503 72 73 | F +43 1 503 72 73 x99 /
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
Reply to: