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Old Dec 26, 2004 | 9:04 pm
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Originally Posted by mrakant
In your hotel room you are going to get a private IP address. In order for others to connect using the same IP address you need DHCP. If it is Wireless enabled then you need to know SSID and all your employees should use the same SSID to acess and when their WL cards acess the AP then they will get a IP address which is maped to the hotel IP address given to you for your room.
No, DHCP provides addresses for PC's. It doesn't allow everyone to use the same IP address. That would be a function of NAT. DHCP = Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol.
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