Dave,
I doubt that it would have a problem routing your packets unless you
had an IP address conflict. Your router would still be partaking in
two different networks and NAT'ing between them and your router would
have it's 24 bit subnet mask so any traffic from your laptop which
would have been outside it's network would still go to the gateway and
then in turn to it's gateway.
Also I doubt that in reality they would have been using a 16 bit
subnet on a class on a class C range.
Did you have any problems?
The only problems I have had in hotels is that sometimes the gateway
IP address is outside the network of the IP address they assign to my
system. In Windoze this doesn't seem to be an issue as it seems happy
with a gateway outside it's subnet but in OS/2, Linux and OS9 (Embeded
RTOS not Mac) this isn't allowed. So I have to static IP my laptop
and massage the subnet mask.
My $0.02 worth,
Sam
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Dave Saville
<os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> wrote:
> I had a thought about this today.
>
> The Asus defaults to 192.168.1.220 which is what I was using. Now IIRC
> the hotel was dishing out 192.168.41.* But I have no idea what netmask
> they were using.
>
> I mean technically one could use 255.255.0.0 on this private address
> range. What if they had a silly netmask? The Asus gets this and an IP
> and just gets confused as to where to send responses.
>
> --
> Regards
>
> Dave Saville
>
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