>The situation: a local hotel owner may allow us to mount a
>surfcam on the side of his hotel.
>Let's say that the camera is accessible via port 1350.
>We would like to make it as transparent as possible to the owner.
>Instead of having to get his IT guy to set up port forwarding
>within the hotel's ISP-connected router, we'd like a situation
>where we would supply our own router - with port forwarding
>already in place - and just hang the router on the hotel's
>network, thus keeping it simple for all concerned.
>Is there any way something like this could be made to work? i.e.
>somebody from outside the hotel, who knows the hotel's name or IP
>addr, can get to our camera without anybody having to mess around
>with the hotel's router?
>e.g. http://www.KindlyHotel.com:1350
When you connect a device to an existing network, by default it uses