[268] in Resnet-Forum
Re: Utilization of ethernet in resnets
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Potter, ISC DCO&TS (475-699)
Tue May 3 09:57:19 1994
Date: Tue, 03 May 1994 09:39:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Andrew Potter, ISC DCO&TS (475-6994)" <AWPSYS@ritvax.isc.rit.edu>
To: danu@dccs.upenn.edu
Cc: resnet-forum@MIT.EDU
X-Vms-To: IN%"danu@dccs.upenn.edu"
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>At Penn, our first year experience has been:
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>* 600 rooms wired (one wall plate per pillow, plus living rooms and
> lounges) for a total of 1900 connections
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>* 1,500 students in the five wired buildings
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>* 400 IP addresses in our BOOTP database
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Dan,
Here at RIT we have activated about 2/5s of our dorm rooms (about 800 rooms)
for asynch connections (Terminal servers PPP and SLIP will be available this
fall). We would hope to activate the remainder with ethernet as time and
budget permits.
At RIT we use a FDDI backbone supported by CISCO AGS+ routers. Each Building
communications closet (BDF) is served by Fiber Optic ethernet back to
the CISCOs.
Several questions:
1) Is your BOOTP software and database management tools available
to other colleges?
2) What networking hardware do you use? Are you happy with it?
3) Do you use switching hubs or other methods to isolate
net traffic for performance and/or security reasons?
4) Do you now implement or plan to implement a network login?
Thank you for any information you can provide.
- Andy
Andrew W. Potter Associate Director (716) 475-6994
Email: awpsys@rit.edu USPS: ISC Data Center Operations & Technical Support
Rochester Institute of Technology, 103 Lomb Mem. Dr, Rochester NY, 14623-5608
