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Not sure how this would help. The server will only see IP address. The Comcast will know that a given set of users had the session open on the hotspot. But unle
by lsh123 12y ago
Not sure how this would help. The server will only see IP address. The Comcast will know that a given set of users had the session open on the hotspot. But unless the hotspot sends detailed information about every packet to Comcast with session/user mapping, there is no way to map a particular request to a session/user.
- jsz0 12y agoThe router simply maps different networks to different SSIDs: SSID customer-net = VLAN1, nat VLAN1 192.168.1.0/24 to WAN-IP1 SSID public-net = VLAN2, nat VLAN2 192.168.2.0/24 to WAN-IP2
- lsh123 12y agoSure. Having different IPs definitely helps (this was my original question if IPs will be different or not). The login to Comcast by itself doesn't help.
- sliverstorm 12y agoI believe authentication is usually handled with MAC addresses. I'm not a network engineer, but I've worked under one and professional equipment has a lot of capabilities for identifying & handling cases exactly like these; don't infer all of the network devices are as rudimentary as a WRT54G