[174938] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Marriott wifi blocking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Cantrell)
Mon Oct 6 07:24:29 2014
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Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2014 12:24:17 +0100
From: David Cantrell <david@cantrell.org.uk>
To: Hugo Slabbert <hugo@slabnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <20141004025707.GD1424@bamboo.slabnet.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 07:57:07PM -0700, Hugo Slabbert wrote:
> But it's not a completely discrete network. It is a subset of the
> existing network in the most common example of e.g. a WLAN + NAT device
> providing access to additional clients, or at least an adjacent network
> attached to the existing one. Okay: theoretically a guest could spin up
> a hotspot and not attach it to the hotel network at all, but I'm
> assuming that's a pretty tiny edge case.
I don't think it is. It's common for phones to be able to share their
3G/4G/whatever wossnames with other devices over wifi. And these days
you don't even have to pay the telco extra.
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