[68689] in North American Network Operators' Group
.edueyeball LART RE: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Weeks)
Mon Mar 15 16:55:11 2004
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 11:27:42 -1000 (HST)
From: Scott Weeks <surfer@mauigateway.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <010c01c409e6$be24d730$0316a8c0@bigp4>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
: > This is a topic I get very soap-boxish about. I have too
: > many problems with providers who don't understand the college
: > student market. I can think of one university who requires
: > students to login through a web portal before giving them a
: > routable address. This is such a waste of time for both
: > parties. Sure it makes tracking down the abusers much
: > easier, but is it worth the time and effort to manage? This
: > is a very legitimate idea for public portals in common areas,
: > but not in dorm rooms. In a dorm room situation or an
: > apartment situation, you again know the physical port the
: > DHCP request came in on. You then know which room that port
: > is connected to and you therefore have a general idea of who
: > the abuser is. So whats the big deal if you turn off the
: > ports to the room until the users complain and the problem is
: > resolved?
Since no one's mentioned it, the program everyone is referring to is
netreg:
www.netreg.org
www.net.cmu.edu/netreg
Also, most .edueyeball networks have (and have always had) a VERY low
budget for networking stuff. As a result, generally, there is little to
no plant map documentation, so it isn't the case of looking up the
physical port on a map and shutting it off. Netreg allows you to "bad
web" folks. They can go nowhere until they call the helpdesk. It's a
great LART. >:-) <=== That's an evil smile...
scott
