Router for university

wildest_jjk

wildest_jjk

wildest_jjk

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Hello,

I am trying to select a router for a friend at university. Basically I think like most university's that each hall is limited to one device (one mac address at a time).

However to get around this, I think a router might work. What do you guys think? I am thinking this because you can create your own network and NAT will do the rest. Is this right?

Many thanks :)
 
wildest_jjk said:
Hello and thanks for your response.

Will a router work for this setup? Am I right in thinking this then?

Many thanks
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Your idea is a sound one, and it's not unheard of for people to run NAT on routers in halls to get more than one device online.
If you need to register the MAC address of your PC first, then make sure the router you get supports MAC spoofing.
 
Router may work. Just be careful its not sending out BPDU's; most halls will shut the port down entirely if they detect its a non-client port.

We used to have a dedicated PC with 2 NIC's and ipv4.forwarding and NAT set up using Ubuntu and DHCP on the outside/DHCP server on the inside network to a switch (our internal network). Pretty convoluted but it worked.
 
Thanks for the responses. Wouldn't I need to plug the router in first so that the port is given the routers mac address. Then what would I need to do?

Many thanks :)
 
Depends on the Uni. My sister in law was at Nottingham - she had to pre-register her MAC address, then plug in the laptop and let it run various scans. Once that was all done I swapped it back to the router and spoofed the MAC address of her laptop.

Some Uni's simply only allow 1 MAC address per switch port but don't care what it is.
 
I know that my friends uni does not need any pre registering mac addresses. So once the router is plugged in, what would need to be done?

Thanks for your response, very helpful.
 
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