[120016] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sthaug@nethelp.no)
Tue Dec 8 04:15:48 2009
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:14:53 +0100 (CET)
To: marka@isc.org
From: sthaug@nethelp.no
In-Reply-To: <200912080539.nB85dMHD003129@drugs.dv.isc.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org, jgreco@ns.sol.net
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> This really should be a DHCP option which points to the authentification
> server using ip addresses. This should be return to clients even
> if they don't request it. Web browers could have a hot-spot button that
> retrieves this option then connects using the value returned.
Unfortunately, that's not how DHCP works. If you send the client a
DHCP option which the client has not requested, you have no idea if
the client will use (or for that matter even *understand*) the option.
Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no
