On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 13:45, Robert West <[email protected]>wrote:
> The problem that I was seeing was that there are many wireless devices now > that don’t have any “screen” to see a login button. Game systems being the > first on my mind. In hotels, some guests bring their kids game system to > keep them from running the halls…… How can you get these basically blind > systems to punch through a page like that? > I suppose, in that case, you could keep a few wireless bridges around to lend to guests, with crossover cables, with their MACs already pre-authorized. (Might have to have it do NAT, so the AP only sees its MAC and not the MAC of the Xbox or whatever. Depends on the device.) Or get the system's MAC, but that adds a lot of extra complications (your hotel clerks now need to know how to get that information from every device ever made, and how to add the MAC to an ACL somewhere). David Smith MVN.net
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