Joseph Mack PhD, High Performance Computing & Scientific Visualisation LMIT, Supporting the EPA Research Triangle Park, NC 919-541-0007 Federal Infrastructure Contact-Ravi Nair 919-541-5467 - [EMAIL PROTECTED], Federal Visualization Contact - Joe Retzer, Ph.D. 919-541-4190 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06/01/2005 09:51:50 AM: > 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. Thanks for the heads up. I've just come back from a trip where I connected via ethernet or wifi at 5 different hotels/airports and connected just fine, thanks to your suggestion. Initially I got an IP and default gw on sticking in my pcmcia card and assumed I was done. However I couldn't get out. Then remembering your posting, I fired up netscape and went anywhere, to instead get a signon form. Supposedly after that I woudn't have to reauthenicate for my next session (which turned out to be true). I tried changing the pcmcia ethernet card (different MAC) to see how they they recognised me. One place I was blocked, so presumably they were looking at the MAC address and other place I connected fine, so presumably they timeout that port and don't look for the MAC. At some places the instructions weren't terribly helpful ie plug in card, connect to the internet (which presumably for most people is fire up IE). Other places explicitely told you that you had to log in via a webpage before being allowed out. Joe -- 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
