On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Dave Saville
<os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:57:08 -0500 Sam Lewis wrote:
>>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,
> Hi Sam
>
> Yes I did have a problem in that using the Asus in AP mode I could not
> get to the web page to put in the authentication details because I did
> not get an address - but every time I tried to get into the Asus it
> diverted to a "can't resolve something in the hotel network" popup.
So your laptop couldn't get an IP address or your AP?
I thought your device was a travel router. You know what they say
about ASSuming :).
Sam
> Putting my old Artem card in worked perfectly.
>
> --
> Regards
>
> Dave Saville
>
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