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Re: Hotel networks (Was Re: Security for the IETF wireless network)

Randall Gellens <randy@qti.qualcomm.com> Fri, 25 July 2014 19:03 UTC

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Subject: Re: Hotel networks (Was Re: Security for the IETF wireless network)
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At 9:43 AM -0400 7/25/14, Steve Crocker wrote:

>  I'm not at this IETF meeting and I'm not referring to the current 
> hotel network.  In the past, I've encountered all sorts of 
> restrictions and limitations.  Also, there is often a big 
> difference between the main hotel and the others.  In Maastricht, 
> for example, I stayed at what was apparently a dorm hotel and I 
> could not get access to nonstandard ports, e.g. for SSL protected 
> access to my email.

I wish the IETF NOC could take over the networks of every hotel in 
every city we visit, but I don't expect them to be able to.

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Randall Gellens
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