[c-nsp] How they do that?

[Chris Boyd]

On Sep 2, 2008, at 8:38 AM, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 	Not a Cisco specific question, but thought this group
> would have the best insight.
>
> 	After 10 hours on the road, I'm more dopey than usual. Pull
> into a Marriott, and of course the first thing I do is hook the laptop
> up. Normally, during the FreeBSD boot process I stop it and switch the
> config over from a hardcoded IP/gateway (For use at home/office... I
> need to be DMZ'd for somet things, so the IP is static) to DHCP.  
> Wasn't
> thinking straight and let it boot.


Since some have replied about proxy arp and the like, I'll go ahead  
and reply to the list.

It's more complicated than that.  Many hotels use a device from  
Nomadix http://www.nomadix.com/ (now part of DoCoMo).  It's a  
supercharged packet munger that can take almost any end station config  
and rewrite the headers to get you connected to the outside world,  
usually after redirecting an HTTP session to the clickthrough "Don't  
Be Evil" agreement, credit card info collection etc.  Very effective  
and flexible.

--Chris