On Fri, 7 May 2004, Shannon Roddy wrote: > are very real. The annoyances are all M$, but the real damaging stuff > is not. Now we have a layered defense. Firewalls, host updates & > patches, etc. etc. etc. This includes my Solaris, Linux, & Mac boxes > just as much as it does my M$ boxes.
I agree, and we take the same layered defense. However the MS worms are particularly troublesome. When all your routers are at 100% CPU, WAN links are saturated, and the network is pretty much down because of worm replication traffic, then it's no longer an annoyance, it's a real problem. Luckily we've never been hit really hard by a worm. Like most organizations, the network HAS to be up for us to do business. For that reason, i can see why LSU wants all windows laptops to be on AD. If you brought in your linux laptop, they probably wouldn't care. > I agree. Things must be taken on an individual or departmental basis > somewhere as large as LSU. At SLU, it may be different since it is a > smaller campus. But at LSU, they cannot just make a blanket statement. In a setting as political as a university, i think they have to make a blanket statement. You can't give special treatment to some depts and not others... that's when someone calls the univ president and complains, he calls the VPs, etc etc... and it rolls downhill. I know who the competent admins are, and have gotten away with cutting them some slack, thus far. But just because you have a phd in physics and know how to login to a Solaris box doesn't make you competent to run a unix network. ray =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ray DeJean http://www.r-a-y.org Systems Engineer Southeastern Louisiana University IBM Certified Specialist AIX Administration, AIX Support =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
