Bandwidth is a big deal on a campus with 40000+ students. Resnet offers 2
ports per room and they don't want people sapping bandwidth on an already
saturated network. Breaking policy = port shutoff and additional
punishments if they see fit. They do monitor traffic and usage pretty
heavily so tamper with it at your own risk. If you ask me, screwing with
computing resources isn't worth a year of school probation. Trust me on
this one.
Brian Swick
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On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Nathan Sportsman wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> This comming fall I'll be attending UT as a freshman and staying in
> Jester. I've look over some of the policy guidelines for using UT's
> network. One of the big no no's they mention is not extending the ethernet
> port beyond its current capabilites including hubs, routers, etc. Why and
> is this really a big deal? I have 6 machines that I plan to network
> together using linux and ipchains as the front end box to allow
> the rest of the machines access to the Internet. I'm not going to use any
> of these machines as a server, and setting this up isn't going to take
> away anymore of UT's bandwidth. So is this really a big deal, and if it is
> what are the penalties if your caught? I saw something mentioning shutting
> off your port?!?
>
> Nathan
>
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