Is ab-so-fucking-lutely awesome. Granted, this link probably has latencies of almost 100-200 ms on just the first hop to my gateway at MAE-West, and my max throughput is only about 90k at best. However, the cool hax element of the whole thing is hard to ignore.
Thanks Boingo!
ozymandns?
Actually, I ended up using a hacked tree of NSTX. There were some quirks getting it to work with kernel 2.6.19 and TUN/TAP, but it seems to work fine now.
It’s interesting how many pay-per-use hotspots do a totally anal job of grabbing *everything*, but don’t even touch DNS.
Got a link to the code? How does its performance compare with the ozymandns?
I was thinking of throwing a tarball up somewhere, but I just haven’t gotten around to cleaning up the code a bit and packaging it. I’ll email a copy to anyone interested.
The performance is about the same. I haven’t done any real testing or stressing of the link, but I think I like the idea of actually having an IP interface to play with rather than a proxy.
I’m not sure why but I used to go to this Starbucks across the street from Ohlone and they had an AP: attwifi and I used to connect to it and go right in to the internet when I had Debian “sarge”. Then recently I went in with knoppix and any site I go to redirects to an att site that asks me to setup an account.