Re: Hotels and debian
On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Bob Hauck wrote:
> 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? 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>.
Correct. That is the STSN network (stsn.com). It's a network piggybacked
on the house phone circuits. It transparently accepts any ("valid") IP
address from the client, fakes a route (point-to-point I think), and NAT's
the client to the internet (after charging your account, of course). In
Starwood (Sheraton) hotels, they've started putting in Cisco 575 LRE hubs
(Long Reach Ethernet) the stack Ethernet and the phone circuit onto the
house phone lines to a Cisco Catalyst 2900 LRE XL (and a MS ISA box). They
work in a similar fashion.
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