[174857] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Marriott wifi blocking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hugo Slabbert)
Fri Oct 3 18:26:38 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 15:26:27 -0700
From: Hugo Slabbert <hugo@slabnet.com>
To: John Schiel <jschiel@flowtools.net>
In-Reply-To: <542F1CB1.4030309@flowtools.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On Fri 2014-Oct-03 16:01:21 -0600, John Schiel <jschiel@flowtools.net> wrot=
e:
>
>On 10/03/2014 03:23 PM, Keenan Tims wrote:
>>>The question here is what is authorized and what is not. Was this to pr=
otect their network from rogues, or protect revenue from captive customers.
>>I can't imagine that any 'AP-squashing' packets are ever authorized,
>>outside of a lab. The wireless spectrum is shared by all, regardless of
>>physical locality. Because it's your building doesn't mean you own the
>>spectrum.
>
>+1
>
>>
>>My reading of this is that these features are illegal, period. Rogue AP
>>detection is one thing, and disabling them via network or
>>"administrative" (ie. eject the guest) means would be fine, but
>>interfering with the wireless is not acceptable per the FCC regulations.
>>
>>Seems like common sense to me. If the FCC considers this 'interference',
>>which it apparently does, then devices MUST NOT intentionally interfere.
>
>I would expect interfering for defensive purposes **only** would be=20
>acceptable.
What constitutes "defensive purposes"?
>
>--John
>
>>
>>K
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Hugo
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