I stayed in the Philadelphia Central City Marriott a little while ago, and they had a great third-party provided product called STSN(?). It was a little box with an ethernet port that worked instantly with no difficulties. It could assign settings to you based on DHCP if your laptop required that, but if you used a static IP and already had a default gateway configured it would simply operate promiscously and, I assume, rewrite the destination MAC address of all ports you transmitted on the segment to the MAC address of a router someplace in the hotel, and forwarded the packets to the segment that router lived on.
I was skeptical when I read the instructions that claimed no setup was required, but it worked fine with both my laptop, setup for a static IP and a default gateway IP that was not on the segment, as well as my girlfriend's laptop, which was setup for DHCP. The Cisco technology I think some posters are reaching for is called a "Private LAN", by the way. You can read about it on CCO. I don't know if you could accomplish the same thing the Marriott's black box did, but given the layer3 features and private lan technology on the Catalyst 6000/6500 series routers I suspect you could come up with something both workable and secure. If you read up on Private LANs and don't grok it, I could provide an explaination. The clue level on this thread has been higher than most on this list (thankfully, stuff like this is why I remain subscribed) but this is an advanced networking topic most people have no experience with. - jsw -----Original Message----- From: Mike Fedyk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mike Fedyk Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2001 4:22 AM To: debian-isp@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Machine Registration On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 07:28:54PM -0700, Ted Deppner wrote: > Hubs (shudder) and switches (even most Cisco stuff) would allow snooping, > break two 10.0.0.1 customers from working, broadcast collisions, gateway > and next hop collisions, etc... > > The concept is the customer is directly connected to an individual port[1], > capable of Gateway discovery, providing itself as the next hop gateway, > local DHCP assignment (or relay to a DHCP server higher up), and 1:1 > NAT... all on a per port basis. > Hmm, have you worked in this area, or are you just speculating? I don't know, but do many laptop users use static addresses? I realize the want to have a setup be all things for everyone, but do you really think you're going to have one switch port for each and every room? I guess that security could be one of the advertised features of your rooms.... It really depends on what the hotel wants. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
