Marriott wifi blocking

Fri Oct 3 20:16:09 UTC 2014

legality is questionable insofar as "this device must not cause harmful interference" of PartB
but how it works is by sending DEAUTH packets with spoofed MAC addresses
"rouge AP" response on Cisco/Aruba works like this.

Regards,

Michael Holstein
Cleveland State University
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From: NANOG <nanog-bounces at nanog.org> on behalf of David Hubbard <dhubbard at dino.hostasaurus.com>
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2014 4:06 PM
To: NANOG
Subject: Marriott wifi blocking

Saw this article:

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/03/travel/marriott-fcc-wi-fi-fine/

The interesting part:

'A federal investigation of the Gaylord Opryland Resort and
Convention Center in Nashville found that Marriott employees
had used "containment features of a Wi-Fi monitoring system"
at the hotel to prevent people from accessing their own
personal Wi-Fi networks.'

I'm aware of how the illegal wifi blocking devices work, but
any idea what legal hardware they were using to effectively
keep their own wifi available but render everyone else's
inaccessible?

David