On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 17:14:42 -0500, Graham Dunn <gdunn at inscriber dot com> wrote:
> >
> > This makes more sense.  In a proper network setup, this won't work
> > under any circumstances.  However I know there are many commercial hot
> > spot providers that somehow make this work.  Proxy ARP is a part of it
> > for sure, but I don't know of the details on how the rest of it works.
> 
> Wouldn't most places make this work by making sure you set your network
> adapter to get an IP via DHCP?
> 

Most, yes.  But I've seen several hotels where you can have literally
any IP address, and you can get on the internet.  They do have a DHCP
server that'll assign you an IP within a private range, but if you
have a static IP configuration that also works as well.

I glanced at the instructions after I was using it (on DHCP 192.168.
net) for a while and saw that they claimed it would work with any
static IP setup.  So for the hell of it (really curious if it'd
actually work that way), I changed my IP to 1.2.3.4/24 with gateway
1.2.3.1 and some oddball DNS server.  Worked with that.  Now I wish I
had messed with it more, and sniffed the line to see what it was
doing, but I had actual work to do at the time.  Next time I run
across a setup like that I'll mess with it more.

-Chris