[CLUE-Tech] my neighbor has an access point

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Have you tried setting your SSID and configured your laptop to select the appropriate network?

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On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 21:25:39 -0700
Dave Price <davep at kinaole.org> wrote:

> hello cluebies,
> 
> I have an interesting problem.  I have a 'secure' wireless access point
> running in my house which works fine - passes out 192.168.2.0/24 dhcp
> addresses so I can run correctly on my LAN and use NFS and lpd
> resources, as well as ssh to hosts which are protected by tcp-wrappers
> from most of the internet.
> 
> Now, someone in my neighborhood has set up an access point which my
> laptop seems to like to connect to.  If I am on the other end of the
> house from my own wireless hub, the laptop will grab the alien hub and
> get a (useable) 10.10.0.x/ppp address (mask=255.255.255.255 -
> gw=10.10.0.1) I can access the web and such from this config, but not my
> own LAN or my secured hosts.
>