Re: Hotels and debian
Many thanks to all who replied, alot of helpful suggestions.
I think i am going to start with a NAT system in a test environment and go
from there.
Still looking for any Linux related links if anyone comes across any in
their travells.
Will report on my progress
cheers
-Matt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Chipman" <mkchipman@optushome.com.au>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 10:00 PM
Subject: Hotels and debian
> All, bear with me on this ...
>
> We have just started to get international travellors with laptops
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.
>
> I have no reason to disbelieve these guys but i cant for the life of me
work
> out how the hotel is doing this.
>
> Whatever they are doing, i want to do the same with Debian and segregate 5
> lan points dedicated to this method of connectivity.
>
> We already have several Debian machines and i would like to use one of
these
> machines if possible, maybe by using an extra NIC in the machine.
>
> It must be some sort of reverse DHCP server or something (he says grasping
> at straws??!!)
>
> anyone have any ideas?
>
> thanks
>
> -Matt
>
>
>
>
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