[120017] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Cox)
Tue Dec 8 04:19:48 2009
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:48:38 +1030
From: Andrew Cox <andrew@accessplus.com.au>
To: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>, nanog@nanog.org, jgreco@ns.sol.net
In-Reply-To: <200912080539.nB85dMHD003129@drugs.dv.isc.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Sounds like a great idea in theory but would require OS support or a
dual-hotspot setup that provided for both options until support was
expected.
Until such time it's simply unworkable.
That and as mentioned in my previous post, the setup we have *just
works* for users who don't have the permissions to change off of a
static IP and use DHCP on their laptops.
Andrew
>
> 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.
>
> No need to compromise the DNS or intercept http.
>
> Mark
>
