Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 11:04:37 -0700
From: Kenneth Heafield <heafield>
To: Dabney
Subject: Move Day Is Tomorrow, Frosh!

Apparently move in day is Tomorrow.  ITS says they are _far_ from a
functioning network in the trailers.  That is, none of the ports will be
active.  Some nameless its staff had this to say about the network we're
going to setup:

Hopefully there will setup a wireless router outside tacit house for
us.  There is a limit of 20 MAC addresses.  We plan on putting some
routers behind the access point.  ITS is of the opinion that it sucks
but they will only do things "right" and not provide anything
temporary.  Also they're very angry and frustrated. 

One might want to hook up network cables in Munth (Blacker
offcampus--not recommended due to limited bandwidth), Tacit House, or
the Center for Student Services.   The latter two have fiber going to
them.  One should keep these hints in mind: limit of 8 MAC addresses
(not IPs) per port and trailers are on separate ground making switches
very unhappy although Avery is probably on the same ground.  Read
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps3873/prod_installation_guide09186a00800dffee.html
.  Finally, ITS has fired comptrollers of other houses for breaking into
network closets.  In short don't tell or ask a current comptroller about
it. 

Avery may be persuaded to vacuously place their non-existant wireless
access points in windows on the east side. 

Finally, all the charter cable modems went down today and they don't
know when service will be back. 

Get lots of sleep because move day is tomorrow, frosh! 

Ken"I hate sounding so stupid but angry network people does not make for
good job security"neth