Re: Hotels and debian
On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 10:00:22PM +1000, Matt Chipman wrote:
> 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.
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 ...
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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