Re: Random Port Blocking at Hotels (was: Re: quietly....)

[Paul Timmins <paul () telcodata us>]

Derek J. Balling wrote:
> On Feb 5, 2011, at 11:15 PM, Paul Timmins wrote:
>   
> > I know a hospital in Metro Detroit that was offering it on their patient and guest WiFi in 2009. Of course, neither 
> > they, nor the individual running the rogue IPv6 router knew that, but as a person running an IPv6 enabled OS, it was 
> > really  screwing up access to my dual stacked hosts to be getting RAs on their wireless with no prefixes on them. I had 
> > to filter out RAs in iptables in order to effectively use their WiFi, which was a mess to begin with.
> >     
>
> Wouldn't it have been awesome if, y'know, you hadn't had to worry about the RAs at all, but had just connected your 
> single client machine, and gotten your simple gateway address from the DHCP server along with all the rest of your network 
> configuration settings, just like has worked pretty darned well for a number of years?
>   
Because rogue DHCP servers have never been a problem. Switches supported 
keeping those secure since before DHCP was even commonly used, right?

-Paul