On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 10:11:27PM +, Hendrickson, Kenneth wrote:
> Often hotels will bring you to a web page, where you have to enter a
> code and/or give a password and/or click "I agree" to a terms of
> service statement, before they will start passing packets.
>
> So you might have to do this on a laptop or something first. Then
> plug the cable into the Soekris box, and start up networking again.
>
So when I tested this I plugged my laptop into the ethernet first and
verified the captive portal and outbound path to the internet. I've
been in a lot of hotels that have both WiFi and ethernet where the
ethernet is dead. The results I got were:
laptop:
ethernet -- link, initial DHCP address, agreed to captive
portal, connected to internet;
soekris:
vr0 -- No link; no dhcp, no captive portal, no internet;
vr2 -- link, initial DHCP address, agreed to captive
portal, connected to internet;
At this point I assumed a dead vr0 port and since the Net5501-xx has
four and I only needed two, I moved on. What puzzles me is that I
expected the vr0 port to remain dead when I returned home. And that's
not what happened.
I completely believe that the hotel's wiring could be the root
issue. If that's the case there's not much that I can do. Does anyone
know if there's something in the Soekris that would exhibit these
symptoms? Could this be a weak power supply?
I won't be travelling again until late June. If the issue comes up
again I'd like to have a strategy to figure out whats going on. If
weak wiring in the hotel is the issue could it be weak enough that it
affects all four ethernet ports on my Net5501?
--
Chris
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