Assuming a hotel has hotel WiFi limited in speed, but unlimited TV network. The TV network however is monitored by MAC Adress and no rogue MAC adresses can connect.
That means the MAC of the TV must be cloned onto the glinet router to access the TV network. Is there a way to have the TV connected to the network as well as the glinet router, both not blocked from the network?
Yes, in that case if you clone the mac of the tv on your router it should work.
I believe the wan section has a option to set the mac address, put there the address of the tv, otherwise you need to do it with luci.
If they still block you, likely they use more things maybe ttl hop detection, there are posts about this on the forum, or vendor id you need luci for this, but often I won't expect vendor id, it's more a isp thing.
I assume the tv was wired, otherwise clone with the normal mac clone function for the repeater.
Thank you,
the question was rather, if the MAC adress has to be cloned, there would be two devices having the same MAC, the router as well as the TV. How can both devices be connected to the TV network to not raise any suspition when the TV is disconnected?
Well they will end up seeing a single device.
The outside of your network has 0 awareness about the dhcp server in your local network.
If the router uses tv mac, from the outside they will not directly know it is a router, what a sys admin could do is enforcing vendor ids to lock it down stricter this happen when requesting dhcp, or doing checks on ttl if it sees more than one hop it knows it is a router, you have to adjust ttl to 65 then, then it will be obvious it would not work, then you need to find the cause.
What they can do, but only if a network engineer is actively present with already a suspicioun, is looking to unusual network traffic patterns.
Tvs often generate very standard traffic, some telemetry, but it will be a redflag for them if it visits a banking site as a example.
I won't worry too much about getting caught, 9/10 it is just a firewall block and likely nobody logs it, it would likely be more a issue if they are fixing technical issues and on the same road noticed your traffic.
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