[RndTbl] A LAN in the office
Gilles Detillieux
grdetil at scrc.umanitoba.ca
Mon Feb 23 14:00:23 CST 2009
Bill wrote:
> My son is at U of Ottawa and would like to put a router in his office to
> run his laptop and perhaps a NAS box. I can't see that this would be
> any different from what we do at home, so it should work.
>
> Perhaps there are administrative concerns that Gilbert would be familiar
> with. Does this happen at UofM? I suspect a wi-fi port might be
> unwelcome.
Administrative concerns will vary from one site to another, so your son
should check with U Ottawa's Computing and Communications Services to
find out what their policy is with regards to NAT routers on their
network. Here at the U of M, they are not officially allowed by IST's
policy, though they tend not to actively enforce that policy as long as
they don't cause any problems.
Rogue wi-fi hotspots will almost always be unwelcome because the
potential for either interference with authorized equipment, or security
vulnerabilities, is too great to run the risk. Wired-only setups tend
to be less problematic, but can still cause problems in improperly
configured or if the hardware is a bit flaky. (Home routers are not
built to the same tolerances as the equipment universities will deploy
on their networks.)
Gilles
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Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <grdetil at scrc.umanitoba.ca>
Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/
Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB R3E 0J9 (Canada)
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