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Re: Marriott wifi blocking
From: John Schiel <jschiel () flowtools net>
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 09:04:55 -0600
On 10/03/2014 04:26 PM, Hugo Slabbert wrote:
On Fri 2014-Oct-03 16:01:21 -0600, John Schiel <jschiel () flowtools net> wrote:On 10/03/2014 03:23 PM, Keenan Tims wrote:The question here is what is authorized and what is not. Was this to protect their network from rogues, or protect revenue from captive customers.I can't imagine that any 'AP-squashing' packets are ever authorized, outside of a lab. The wireless spectrum is shared by all, regardless of physical locality. Because it's your building doesn't mean you own the spectrum.+1My reading of this is that these features are illegal, period. Rogue AP detection is one thing, and disabling them via network or "administrative" (ie. eject the guest) means would be fine, butinterfering with the wireless is not acceptable per the FCC regulations.Seems like common sense to me. If the FCC considers this 'interference', which it apparently does, then devices MUST NOT intentionally interfere.I would expect interfering for defensive purposes **only** would be acceptable.What constitutes "defensive purposes"?
Whoa, lots of replies this weekend.I haven't made my way through all of them but the point was to try and protect your network from an offensive device. It seems though, if you are law abiding and follow the FCC rules, you **cannot** protect yourself very well using the wireless spectrum. Need to do some more reading I guess.
--John
--JohnK
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