[281] in Resnet-Forum
interface cards and software
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Margaret Ellis)
Mon May 30 20:49:25 1994
Date: Mon, 30 May 1994 15:37:17 -0700
To: resnet-Forum@MIT.EDU
From: ellis@netcom.ubc.ca (Margaret Ellis)
We're just getting into networking the students dorms here at the
University of British Columbia in Vancouver, B.C., and are looking to gain
from the experience of those who got in the game before us!
I have a few questions:
1) If you have stipulated that the students purchase their own
(from a recommended list?) network interface cards, have you
found that they have been able to install them, themselves,
without much central assistance? If not, how do you keep the
support costs down?
2) How do you handle the configuration of student computers? Do
you issue an IP and gateway address and point them at a sample
ncsa telnet, config, for example? How much support have you found
necessary to get an individual student up and running?
3) Do you make a list of suggested public domain software that
they can ftp from anonymous archives somewhere, e.g. Hgopher,
mosaic, a newsreader, e-mail, etc. If so, have the students been
generally successfull in getting the software and setting it up?
Have you prepared specific software installation procedures for
the students?
4) Have you specified a minimum hardware configuration that a student
must have before they are even considered for networking?
5) Have you hired students in the dorms to act as network administrators
and support staff? If so, how are they compensated?
Thanks in advance for any answers you can supply. I can summarize and
post to the list, if you e-mail the answers directly to me.
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Margaret Ellis Tel: (604) 822-3062
Network Analyst Internet: Margaret.Ellis@ubc.ca
University Computing Services
University of British Columbia
