> I've had the same frustration at other hotels with cat5 and the hotel > network. Same story: you logon to their networ, a browser window should > open up, you enter authorization code, and off you go, except for in > Linux.
I had a similar problem in a hotel last month. The hotel network had a firewall that was blocking all traffic from me. To authenticate, all I had to do was turn on "automatic proxy detection" in firefox and then try to hit ANY web page. It redirected me to a "welcome to our hotel proxy" web page, and then apparently added my MAC address to their firewall. From then on, I could do HTTP, SSH, anything I wanted. It seemed like a weird ritual to go through, since their web proxy did not actually ask me to enter a code or anything. It seemed to me that they installed a fancy firewall but then did not use any of its features. I was probably the first person to complain about it. The typical web-browsing Windows user would have fired up IE, which comes with automatic proxy detection turned on by default. That's what I get for trying SSH first. Alan . -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
