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WiFi at Sea (technical, sorry)
Wow,
this whole thread is pretty whacked, or funny, depending on your perspective. Skip needs a new access point. one that will allow him to set the SSID so that he can specifially attach to it. The lastest issue is that Skip is NOT accessing his local lan locally, he is accessing it via the foreign access point. In fact, technically, the foreign access point is his local lan. poor skip. Wayne has the right idea, just stop doofing around and do it. AND, if you REALLY want to have fun, you can go to http://openwrt.org and install Linux on your WRTG and get all sorts of fun features! (please don't). As for me, I went to www.hacom.net and purchased a little black box and put linux on it, then you can install whatever card you want, my unit has 4 usb ports, 2 pcmcia, etc. I use it to connect to the internet via my Verizon 7130e over their EVDO network, nnnnoice. Its an awesome router/boat controller. But I digress. anywho, if you know what you are donig, roll your own, if you dont, PLEASE listen to Wayne and be done with it. Look, you spend how much on fuel and rum? Just buy the silly wrtg. Oh you want it on your mast for better coverage? Why? WRTG's are cheap by 3 of them, in fact, they are disposable, by 4, just in case one dies. On Dec 27, 2:33 pm, Ian Malcolm wrote: Bill Kearney wrote: If no DNS lookup is being done, there should be absolutely NO oppertunity for a redirect. This is incorrect. A router with sufficient features can redirect whatever it likes. It's quite common for hotspot types of setups to do just that. So it doesn't matter if you have a static address, vpn or anything else. Any packets that hit the router can be manipulated to return anything the router dictates. Even at the ARP level. So your machine does an ARP lookup trying to find your static address (or route) and it's given the router's address; this is normal. But at the same time the router now knows your MAC address (also normal). You use your browser and your MAC address then sends other packets, the hotspot router understands this as HTTP traffic and returns the redirected HTML content. Try any other static addresses and you'll get the exact same thing.YES, but if Skip is attempting to access (port 80 HTTP) an IP address LOCAL TO HIS ONBOARD LAN, *HOW* is the router at the hotspot intercepting it? It shouldn't have any interest in any local addresses on the LAN side of Skip's bridge. You obviously have a better than obvious grasp of what's going on so can you provide an explanation or suggest the next troubleshooting step Skip should try? -- Ian Malcolm. London, ENGLAND. (NEWSGROUP REPLY PREFERRED) ianm[at]the[dash]malcolms[dot]freeserve[dot]co[dot]uk [at]=@, [dash]=- & [dot]=. *Warning* HTML & 32K emails -- NUL: 'Stingo' Albacore #1554 - 15' Early 60's, Uffa Fox designed, All varnished hot moulded wooden racing dinghy. |
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