[119] in Resnet-Forum
Re: Student access to internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Germuska)
Mon Jan 31 19:40:56 1994
From: germuska@antioch.acns.nwu.edu (Joe Germuska)
To: FPALMIERI@ocvaxa.cc.oberlin.edu (Joe Palmieri)
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 1994 18:18:32 -0600 (CST)
Cc: resnet-forum@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <01H8C6EEZBYA00569V@ocvaxa.cc.oberlin.edu> from "Joe Palmieri" at Jan 31, 94 04:03:34 pm
Joe Palmieri wrote:
> >From microcomputers in faculty/staff offices we allow direct access to
> the internet via telnet, gopher, mosaic
>
> >From public equipment (e.g., computer labs), we allow access only to
> local servers and local host computers, so a user can only telnet
> to other sites by logging onto a local host, not from a microcomputer
> directly.
At Northwestern this fall we really began to push the limits of making
local hosts centralized internet access points; the interest generated
over the summer resulted in a doubling of network services accounts to
approximately 12,000, and our servers really began to struggle under
the weight of 80+ users logged in and eating CPU cycles during the
peak hours.
We had already begun, and can only continue, to encourage use of
client software whereever possible. Robust and easy to use internet
software packages are plentiful on both platforms, and much better to
distribute the traffic and CPU load of internet access, demand for
which will only grow.
Why do you restrict access in your labs?
Regardless, our policy for all people working from private computers
is to encourage the use of TCP/IP clients, in offices, dorm rooms, and
via SLIP connections in apartments...
Joe Germuska
Residential Networking Coordinator
Northwestern University
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