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Re: secure hubs in dorms
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve H. Updegrove)
Mon Nov 8 18:05:46 1993
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 93 17:32 EST
From: "Steve H. Updegrove" <S2U@PSUVM.PSU.EDU>
To: tom@MIT.EDU
Cc: lumm@spot.CC.Lehigh.EDU, resnet-forum@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: tom AT MIT.EDU -- Mon, 08 Nov 93 11:29:27 GMT
I'm not sure how Penn State compares to MIT scale-wise, but we found products
from NCR, Synoptics, and 3-Com which both scrambled and met our scalability
needs. We currently offer 10BaseT services at 10,000 of our 14,000 beds,
although we do divide them among a half-dozen Ethernets simply due to physical
layout. Although we standardized on the NCR product a year ago, you might want
to take a look at the offerings of these three vendors to see if they meet your
needs.
I'd also strongly recommend that anyone spending the additional funds for this
technology put the necessary policies and procedures in place to underscore its
value. Although individual registration of concentrator, router, and domain
name service addresses is a bit of a burden, controlling them and having each
student sign an "oath" at least conveys the message that you are serious about
security, and provides some degree of traceability if an event does occur.
I'll be happy to share information on our accomplishments at CAUSE if anyone is
interested.
Steve Updegrove
Penn State University
s2u at psuvm.psu.edu
(814) 863-1201
