> > I was recently at a hotel where I had trouble getting OpenSolaris > > snv_117 with nwam to connect to the hotel network. I monitored the > > ath0 interface with wireshark and found that the hotel's DHCP > > server assigned address 192.168.7.216 with subnet mask > > 255.255.255.255 to my node. The router's address was 192.168.4.1. > > I manually reconfigured my subnet mask to 255.255.252.0 to get > > connectivity. I understand a better way to handle this would be > > to manually define a host route to 192.168.4.1 through the > > interface. > > > > Should Solaris support automatically configuring to a network > > that works this way? > > > > I ran into this at a hotel about 3 years ago and amazingly haven't since > despite the number of hotels I visit. I could swear we filed a bug > somewhere about it, but I can't find it now. I'd put it in the "liberal > in what you accept" bucket and hence we ought to make it work.
Indeed -- and it should just be one additional `if' statement in configure_v4_lease(). Ken, please file a bug. -- meem _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
