> The hotel I'm currently staying at has a bizarre NAT+gateway that's
> caused me an unusual problem: [...]

> Does anyone have any clean suggestions on how to *fix* the problem?

It's not fundamentally your problem, really (it's the hotel's), so you
can't fix it.

I'd suggest switching hotels - and making sure you tell the current
hotel both _that_ and _why_ you're doing so.  (I assume you've already
exhausted asking the hotel people to get it fixed.)

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