Subject: Re: smart router automatically becoming a gateway? (Re: arp errors in dmesg output)
To: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
From: Gary Thorpe <gathorpe79@yahoo.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 10/11/2003 14:16:02
 --- "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> wrote: > On Sun, 12 Oct
2003, Robert Elz wrote:
> 
> >   | In other words, someone could bring in a computer, plug in, and
> >   | immediately attempt to browse to a webpage without changing
> their system's
> >   | IP or gateway (default route) address.
> >
> > What a positively disgusting idea.   I certainly hope that NetBSD
> > offers nothing quite so revolting, now or ever.
> 
> This is second response against this. The other said "It sounds
> horrid" :)
> 
> Anyways, it was not my idea. I was forced to use it and it did cause
> serious problems for my networking for the BSD class I was teaching.
> 
> Nevertheless, hotels pay a lot of money for implementations like
> this. And
> I'd like to learn more about how to implement (and hopefully sell) a
> similar solution that hotels already use.
> 
> Does anyone know of any open source-based solutions for this?
> 
>    Jeremy C. Reed
>    http://bsd.reedmedia.net/

Is this something like roaming when you have a wireless interface?
Would the implementation be similar?

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