[clug] Wireless hotspots.

Andrew Pollock andrew-clug at andrew.net.au
Wed May 19 02:46:29 GMT 2004


On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 06:53:51PM +1000, Steve Walsh wrote:
> 
> The SSID is NERDBAND (original, I know), and nothing apart from a 2.11b or
> 2.11g capable device is needed to access the nodes. Whilst we see how
> popular the hotspots are we have limited them to 16 DHCP addresses, so if
> you can't get on, please let me know so I know that they are full.

Is the 16 IP address restriction to prevent congestion of your pipe out of
the hotspot (i.e. only 16 simultaneous users) or because you're using
real-world IP addresses and not NAT?

Andrew


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