Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 01:50:11 -0800 (PST) From: Tiarnan O'Corrain <ocorrain@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Wireless networking with DHCP "tickets" Message-ID: <20040226095011.22902.qmail@web11206.mail.yahoo.com>
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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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