[174862] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Marriott wifi blocking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (joel jaeggli)
Fri Oct 3 19:16:00 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 19:15:47 -0400
From: joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: John Schiel <jschiel@flowtools.net>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <542F1CB1.4030309@flowtools.net>
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On 10/3/14 6:01 PM, John Schiel wrote:
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> On 10/03/2014 03:23 PM, Keenan Tims wrote:
>>> The question here is what is authorized and what is not. Was this to=
>>> protect 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 o=
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>> physical locality. Because it's your building doesn't mean you own the=
>> spectrum.
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> +1
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>> My reading of this is that these features are illegal, period. Rogue A=
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>> 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 regulation=
s.
>>
>> Seems like common sense to me. If the FCC considers this 'interference=
',
>> which it apparently does, then devices MUST NOT intentionally interfer=
e.
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> I would expect interfering for defensive purposes **only** would be
> acceptable.
if you have a device licensed under fcc part 15 it may not cause harmful
interference to other users of the spectrum.
> --John
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>> K
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