From: "Sam Lewis" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
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Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:09:19 -0500
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Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] Hotel problem with Asus wl-330ge
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On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Dave Saville
<os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:25:22 -0500 Sam Lewis wrote:
>>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. =A0Your 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. =A0In Windoze this doesn't seem to be an issue as it seems happ=
y
>>>>with a gateway outside it's subnet but in OS/2, Linux and OS9 (Embeded
>>>>RTOS not Mac) this isn't allowed. =A0So 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 - =A0but every time I tried to get into the Asus it
>>> diverted to a "can't resolve something in the hotel network" popup.
>>> Putting my old Artem card in worked perfectly.
>>>
>>
>>Dave,
>>Another thought about AP's. =A0I have two AP's and two Bridges on my
>>network and they all are on the wrong network. =A0I have rearranged my
>>IP scheme a few times over the last 10 years and they are now on the
>>incorrect network, however they pass traffic to my computers and
>>printer just fine, which are on the correct network.
>>
>>So if your AP has a static IP you would have to static IP your laptop
>>to the same network to reconfigure it. =A0I would think that the wifi
>>traffic from your laptop would still have gotten to your AP's wired
>>port and onto the hotels network even though it is static IP'd on a
>>different subnet. =A0Unless of course there was a IP address conflict.
>>
>>Again this is all subjective and just my opinion so it may not be worth m=
uch.
>
> Sam
>
> Sorry my fault, when I said AP I meant access mode - ie like a card.
> Asus can do router/bridge/AP/card. I don't think in that mode it gets
> an address itself. The laptop did not get an address. *Something* was
> confusing the routing inside the Asus. At least that was what it
> appeared.
>

No problem.

So is your AP going from the hotels wired to wifi to your laptop? or
Hotel Wifi to the wired card on your laptop?.
Sam

>
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>
> Dave Saville
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