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On 26-Oct-2001 at 15:40:29 MATTHEW BROWNING wrote: >> no wonder I could get no work done when I was at plynouth >> uni...!!!8-) >> > No more gets done by staff (John night disagree). > As a member of Uni computing service staff I must say that it is all damn lies!! :-) But from a personal note, and these are my comments not the Uni's, etc, etc, past network performance has been atrocious for both staff and students. I have had all the same problems that others have had! :-( However, two things have now happened. The JANET link out from us has been increased, previously we used a shared 100MB (I think) link. This was the root of most of the problems due to its saturation. Secondly we are moving to a cisco switched network (aka plymnet4), still with the ATM ring, but with 1GB interconnections and 100MB full-duplex connections to workstations/servers werever possible. In the light of the former I can now easily download (for example) solaris patches (approx 40MB) during the day with no problem. With the latter improvement (still to be be done to my pc), the general access should be even quicker. IPX can still be a problem with the netware servers and connectivity between plymnet3 and 4 can be a source of problems. The cisco stuff I should add seems to be far more reliable than previous newbridge equipment (which is still a source of problems around the Uni). The main route server is still (currently) running newbridge software (sigh). Apparently I'm to be running the network management systems but still have little idea about the actual network...:-) Not really a networking person you see, a systems person myself... Depending on which part of the Uni you reside will depend if you currently have plymnet4 access. The entire Uni, and external sites, will be using plymnet4 by the end of January. > I get kernels and other bits here (really quickly) but I have often > been concerned about grabbing a whole distribution because it says in > this staff booklet I have that you are not allowed to download any > sort of executable. > I think what this is really referring to is where a student downloads some unknown executable and installs it onto a PC without any real idea of what it is or is going to do. Staff are, I believe, expected to exercise some caution before running executables, and if you can do it on a standalone PC and/or private network then so much the better. In the case of downloading something like redhat 7.2 iso images I think the only problem was network performance. I'm sure it (the statement) didn't mean not to download any executable, and if you want to download 7.2 then do so :-) John. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 233914 E-mail: jhorne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx PGP key available from public key servers -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.