[174926] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Marriott wifi blocking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Sun Oct 5 15:57:17 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2014 21:57:05 +0200
In-Reply-To: <9205121.4265.1412443382213.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
(Jay Ashworth's message of "Sat, 4 Oct 2014 13:23:02 -0400 (EDT)")
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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* Jay Ashworth:
> It is OK for an enterprise wifi system to make this sort of attack
> *on rogue APs which are trying to pretend to be part of it (same
> ESSID).
What if the ESSID is "Free Internet", or if the network is completely
open? Does it change things if you have data that shows your
customers can be duped even by networks with a non-colliding ESSID?
