On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 8:00 PM, John Watlington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You keep pushing for centrally hosted school servers. > Are you sure you don't work for the phone company ? >
Last time I checked, San Francisco State University wasn't in the telco business. > Again, unless you have a 100 Mbit connection from the > school to the upstream ISP, you will need something with > a disk and a significant amount of memory present in the > school. > OK. > I don't disagree about the need for physical security of > the machine, just the proposed solution. > OK. Any other solutions? I'm all ears. Sameer > wad > > On Oct 7, 2008, at 10:47 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: > >> As if discussions on this list aren't lively enough, here's another >> issue to look at. >> >> While I was in Jamaica, I met with several people who work with their >> school districts, and many pointed out that if a server was to stay >> physically resident at the school, it will need a lot of physical >> security. The most common problem is theft. The other problem will be >> physical damage (just because somebody can). It is not uncommon in >> some of these >> >> If the school server is hosted at an ISP upstream, we need something >> small (maybe an XO?) at the school that can VLAN or VPN over to the >> school server at the ISP/Data Center. >> >> Any ideas? >> >> cheers, >> Sameer >> -- >> Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. >> Associate Professor of Information Systems >> San Francisco State University >> San Francisco CA 94132 USA >> http://verma.sfsu.edu/ >> http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Server-devel mailing list >> Server-devel@lists.laptop.org >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel