Often hotels will bring you to a web page, where you have to enter a code and/or give a password and/or click "I agree" to a terms of service statement, before they will start passing packets.
So you might have to do this on a laptop or something first. Then plug the cable into the Soekris box, and start up networking again. Ken Hendrickson -----Original Message----- From: soekris-tech-boun...@lists.soekris.com [mailto:soekris-tech-boun...@lists.soekris.com] On Behalf Of Christopher Sean Hilton Sent: Monday, February 01, 2016 3:09 PM To: soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com Subject: [Soekris] Flaky ethernet port on net5501-60 Good afternoon list: I have a net5501-60 that I pack in my carry on luggage as a hotel router/access point. The box runs OpenBSD. It's main function is to connect to the hotel wifi and provide a natted network for all of my electronic gear (ipads, iPhones, a couple of laptops etc.) It solves the issue I have with my family of limits to the hotel's wifi when I travel. The last time I travelled with this thing I noticed that the first ethernet port: "Eth 0" or vr0, would not see a signal from either of the hotels where I stayed. I figured that the port went south and since there are three others, two of which are unused, I wouldn't worry about it. I hooked it up to my network yesterday and since I didn't know what port it was on, and I hadn't connected to it over the console port, I tried connecting via the "dead" vr0 port. Imagine my surprise when that port worked again here at home. Has anyone seen something like this before: One port on the box doesn't work in some locations, but works in others? I'm curious about the cause of this. Thanks -- Chris _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
