[68608] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Diliberto)
Mon Mar 15 02:21:35 2004
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 23:17:35 -0800
From: Ken Diliberto <ken@kdmd.net>
Reply-To: ken@kdmd.net
To: "Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <405522C7.6000700@cox.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote:
>
> Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>
>> And what is wrong with setting up a hub or something in a dormroom? I
>> find it quite convenient to leave both my PC and a laptop running on
>> my desk, for various reasons (too many open terminals and windows is
>> one of them ...)
>
>
> I've been trying to figure out what is wrong with that too.
>
> At my ex-employers, on of the things they did right is encourage
> study groups, and with multi-occupant suites, several stations
> (including one or more printers, plotters, and such) was normal.
>
> Most of the residence halls had hubs or small switches available for
> check-out.
>
> Is it the contention that each student should only use one pencil?
>
If you have 300 students and 500 pencils, then the answer is yes. If
everyone grabbed 3 pencils, you'd run out pretty quick. There are only
so many addresses available in the DHCP pool.
The smarter students put a NAT box on their port so they can run their
desktop, laptop, XBox and have a place their friend can plug in.
Ken
