Wireless networking with DHCP "tickets"

From: Tiarnan O'Corrain (ocorrain_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 02/26/04

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    Hello--

    I'm trying to use a hotel wireless network effectively. I can connect
    perfectly, and surf/do email, and so forth. However, I have to
    re-authenticate to the server every 2 minutes (the length of
    DHCP lease handed out).

    According to Orange WiFi, this is because the DHCP server sends
    some kind of a keep-alive ticket to the client every 2 minutes, and
    if the client does not respond, the lease is revoked.

    This functionality seems to rely on some non-standard features of the
    Microsoft Windows 2K/XP dhcp client, or wireless networking driver,
    since the same problem occurs on Macs and Linux.

    My question is -- has anyone heard of this kind of setup before? The
    drill is, one purchases a scratch card from the hotel test with a
    username/password pair, that is valid for a certain amount of
    time (e.g. 14 hours). Has anyone succeeded in getting authentication
    to stick with FreeBSD in such a configuration?

    Regards

    Tiarnan O Corrain

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