Vigilante

Gotta love hotel networks. I don't travel much, so I turned on wireshark to see how secure they make the wired network. Well, I can see that it's cisco equipment running spanning tree and every client is on the same vlan, or perhaps the whole system is without vlans. Sheesh.

There's one named BOSLEY that's constantly spamming out its share.

Wow I even see the exchange server for the hotel.

Bad admin, baaad.

Not that it matters, I'm no hacker. I'm not staying connected to this all night though, ugh.

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kurty[B]

If their admin and guest network are combined. That's a BAD move, and having been an IT Manager at a hotel, I would not have minded if someone as yourself called the Front Desk and wished to be transferred to my extension to tell me how awful the guest network was configured (not all IT Managers are that way).

From my experience, generally, hotel rooms are on the same VLAN, meeting rooms are all either on the same VLAN, or broken down into seperate VLANs per meeting room. Network traffic is generally left open, but is constantly monitored, and the way my hotel guest network was setup, if someone were consistently SPAMing, or abusing the network the company that managed our guest network (if I had to I'd never get anything done) would block his connection, requiring him to call an 800 number and tell them he read the policy and would not abuse it again (if he did, he would be permanently blocked), or if it wasn't malicious just scale down his connection so that he did not eat up all the bandwidth when other users were on.

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Vigilante

I saw the guy downstairs and he doesn't seem ready to talk to a guest, just IMO. I caught him telling a girl with an ibook that "sometimes they just don't connect, nothing I can do about it" (paraphrased).

He even leaves the wireless unencrypted, and it is not separate from the wired LAN. It's like a home network haha.

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