Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote:
On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 11:16 +0000, Steve Loughran wrote:
Hey, I have that @work too. Proxies, you understand.
I have to put my laptop up on the WLAN as a guest for the day, which
means going to the
appropriate IT page and registering a guest (me) under the supervision
of an employee (me)
At least when I was in IBM they were very intelligent about this ..
clearly HPLabs is still living in the dark ages of the Internet ;-).
We have a direct link to SuperJanet and then to Internet2 as a result
of our hosting grid nodes for the LHC, so connectivity is good, its just
security
Unfortunately U of Moratuwa doesn't have a model to make this work
easily .. the only option is to get an account on a specific machine
which has more access and set up multiple ssh tunnels etc.. Its not
impossible but a total PITA. When you are struggling to keep up with
coursework and also do this stuff for fun, its really hard to see the
fun of it.
No I'm not excusing him however .. I'm supervising his final year
project so he is of course expected to contrib stuff here ;-). TCP does
work over carrier pigeons too, so really there's not much of an
excuse! ;-)
Very inefficient. Bursty Pigeon Protocol with a usb key attached to the
bird is better, but TCP doesnt normally expect an MTU in the gigabyte range,
which makes it hard to do chatty protocol work on it.
Usually committer access is a bit easier because HTTPS is less likely to
be fiddled with at the gate
These guys even shut down 443. :(.
ah now that is unfair.
