Subject: Re: [87attendees] [87all] Pullman guests: plan for using wired net

From: Dominik Bay <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 08:56:04 +0200

On 07/25/2013 05:54 PM, IETF Secretariat wrote:
> Hence, if you are staying at the Pullman Hotel, you may wish to prepare to use the wired network in your hotel room.  Specifically, you may wish to bring with you an access point and/or a long ethernet cable with an RJ45 coupler.  Note that the ethernet cables provided by the Pullman (in at least some rooms) are both quite short and non-standard (pins 1 and 2 are swapped with 4 and 5), so neither straight cables nor standard crossover cables will work on their own. Accordingly, if bringing a long network cable, it may also be wise to bring an RJ45 coupler.

You might want to use an RJ45 changer:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/c890/

A small switch which can handle VLAN Tags + provide a SPAN-Port:
http://routerboard.com/RB250GS

And a small router with Linux + WiFi:
http://www.tp-link.com.de/products/details/?categoryid=218&model=TL-MR3020

This is really helpful if you encounter strange hotel networks (e.g the
Hilton in Vienna) which also provides native v4/v6 in a seperate VLAN in
addition to the "normal" guest network.

If you feel frisky watch out for LLDP/CDP/VTP, you might be able to
enjoy hotel Internet after all.

-dominik