[174889] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Marriott wifi blocking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Hennigan)
Sat Oct 4 00:38:47 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 21:34:53 -0700
From: Jay Hennigan <jay@west.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20141004030408.GE1424@bamboo.slabnet.com>
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On 10/3/14, 8:04 PM, Hugo Slabbert wrote:
> I'm not clear on whether it runs afoul of FCC regs as it's not RF
> interference directly but rather an (ab)use of higher layer control
> mechanisms operating on that spectrum, but it probably does run afoul of
> most "thou shalt not harm other networks" legislation like the
> California example.
You can't get to layer 2 or layer 3 without layer 1. The abuse of
higher layer control protocols requires an RF transmitter within the
radio spectrum, hence it is interference. It is a much more selectively
targeted type of interference than broadband noise, but it's very
obviously interference over radio frequencies by any definition.
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