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[archmagos]

Hi All

I was contemplating heading back to Korea and was wondering if some technically minded people had an insight into configuring routers and internet without relying on passing a user name and password through a one-time webpage (as was the basic way of establishing a connection when I had a megapass account)?

I know that we're talking about Korea (land of IE/Microsoft/ActiveX/Flash) but humour me all the same.

I was contemplating a setup like this in an officetel:

Internet
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Router------(wired)---Computer (Dual Ubuntu / WinXP boot)
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(wifi)
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Netbook (winXP/Moblin)

Routers
Generally, have people found routers bought in Korea to be identical to their international equivalents. For example, can anyone confirm if their router is configurable via a webpage in English (or even SSL/Telnet).

ipv6 & setup
Does anyone have an knowledge if this is (or is likely to be in 2010) supported by any Korean ISPs (Megpass, LG etc). Also, are there standard DNS servers or do people tend to use services like openDNS / Google? My quick search doesn't find a whole lot of info for standard settings.

Finally, i'd be interested to see a traceroute from someone in Seoul connecting to a website outside of Korea (eg, google @ 72.14.207.99)

Cheers

[red_devil]

[archmagos]

[archmagos]

Coming back to Korea is still a bit up in the air atm, but I have been playing around with OpenWRT quite a bit.

In my research from outside of Korea, it appears that some Korean ISPs use a form of MAC address authorisation. So, a device (wifi card, ethernet nic etc) with an unknown MAC that connects to the network will be directed to the ISP's authorisation page (usually a flash heavy IE site) and once a username and password are accepted the MAC address of that device will be permitted access to anything beyond the authorisation page.

The easy solution would thus be to connect directly with a computer for the first time (noting that computer's MAC) and then clone the MAC to the router ... as the router then sits between the ISP and you, as long as its MAC is authorised you can go nuts with wifi or wired connections. I recall seeing at least one Korean router manufacturer's english manual discussing a process like this.

You could, of course, just redefined the mac address of the original connecting device later if you liked. Someone with more experience in openwrt may be able to suggest a way to pass the username and password directly from a pre-configured the router without having to "bootstrap" in this way.

Comments, different experiences or corrections are appreciated of course

As for ipv6, I'm guessing you could still just tunnel over ipv4 with a broker (eg hurricane electric) ... but i'd like to heard from anyone with some experince doing this in Korea