On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 09:49, Simon Wong wrote: > On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 04:55 +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote: > > I have been asked to set up multiple LANs with Internet access in what I > > consider to be a hostile environment - a private uni student dorm > > complex. > > That's about as hostile as you get! A lot of intelligent (generally!) > people with too much time on their hands.
I'm told that most of them are medical students, so the "time on their hands" may not be a factor, but the generally high TER (or whatever it is called these days) is :) > > > 8. How do I look for (possibly infringing) P2P traffic? > > ntop (http://www.ntop.org/ntop.html) is a fantastic tool for analysing > the traffic on your network and includes breakdowns by protocol incl. > P2P. I'll check that out, tks. > > We were using this at UNSW to find the "Top Talkers" on the network and > it was extremely simple to use. > > In particular it made it incredible easy to find compromised Windows > machines as they'd be the ones that had done 100 times more traffic than > most other machines ;-) > > > 10. As this is a private dorm complex, what about AUPs between the > > students and the landlord. > > Definately a good idea but only after the fact or for the honest people. At least it give the landlord a sound basis on which to boot them out. > > > -- > Simon Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Wongy.org -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates; Your Linux people <http://www.lannetlinux.com> ------------------------------------------ "When you just want a system that works, you choose Linux; when you want a system that just works, you choose Microsoft." ------------------------------------------ "Flatter government, not fatter government; Get rid of the Australian states." -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
