> > 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
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