RE: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Using older machines for the internet
Have friends in high places... Well, connections with a university that's involved in the JANet backbone. It's 1000 base LX into the heart of NW JANet and our firewall is the limiting factor (only got 100Mb card on the LAN side...). Also we were told in no uncertain terms that if we ever used the bandwidth available we'd be cut off. Which seems fair! We've never peaked past 4Mb according to Fluke. -----Original Message----- From: Dug Stokes To: 'suse-linux-uk-schools@suse.com' Sent: 5/14/03 11:26 AM Subject: RE: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Using older machines for the internet I'm interested to find out where you get such a fast broadband connection? Care to share this info!? Please!? Dug Stokes Gilberd School -----Original Message----- From: Chris Puttick [mailto:chris@centralmanclc.com] Sent: 14 May 2003 11:07 To: 'Robb Bloomfield '; 'suse-linux-uk-schools@suse.com ' Subject: RE: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Using older machines for the internet We have gigabit... and I'm not joking... -----Original Message----- From: Robb Bloomfield To: suse-linux-uk-schools@suse.com Sent: 5/14/03 11:00 AM Subject: RE: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Using older machines for the internet
We have 100Mb broadband
Bl**dy hell!!! really?!?!
What are you using to see whether a user has visited a site, what is
your
reporting tool? Our users authenticate with the proxy, and that is what
tells us what they've been doing, and controls their access.
-----Original Message-----
From: crowhurst [mailto:crowhurst@hatchend.harrow.sch.uk]
Sent: Wed 14/05/2003 10:47
To: suse-linux-uk-schools
Cc:
Subject: Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Using older machines for
the
internet
Well currently we don't have one! At least not on site - Each
client
has an
ip in the range 10.112.44.x with the proxy being at a remote
site.
It all
seems to work quite happily though. . Someone told
our head of it that our proxy would be slowing it down (which I
had
my
doubts about but still...) so we had the upheaval of changing it
all
about
so that each client talked directly to our broadband providers
proxy.
I'm not sure that the way you have yours is suitable for us
though.
Let me
clarify:
I need to be able to say that user x did/did not look at the
site
www.somethingdodgy.com
I don't want each user to have a "Windows account" and a "Linux
Account" so
want to be able to use the username/password from the win2k
domain.
for
both. It is each individual user that needs to authenticate.
cheers,
Dan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robb Bloomfield"
Browse > > internet > Log off > > > > I also have the use of a 300MHz server 256MB 10Gb. > > > > I figured I could use the server as a samba server, which will allow me to > > authenticate to the Win2k domain I think, with the clients running a > > stripped down GUI with a browser. > > > > Any ideas on the best GUI/browser combination to use? > > > > > > Anyone tried something like this? I'd like to hear from you! > > > > And any other ideas/advice/input is greatly appreciated. > > > > Thanks all, > > > > Dan > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-linux-uk-schools-unsubscribe@suse.com > > For additional commands, e-mail: suse-linux-uk-schools-help@suse.com > > > > > > > > > > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-linux-uk-schools-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: suse-linux-uk-schools-help@suse.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-linux-uk-schools-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: suse-linux-uk-schools-help@suse.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-linux-uk-schools-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: suse-linux-uk-schools-help@suse.com
On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 11:54, Chris Puttick wrote:
Have friends in high places... Well, connections with a university that's involved in the JANet backbone. It's 1000 base LX into the heart of NW JANet and our firewall is the limiting factor (only got 100Mb card on the LAN side...). Also we were told in no uncertain terms that if we ever used the bandwidth available we'd be cut off. Which seems fair! We've never peaked past 4Mb according to Fluke.
Just think, you could have a massive server farm in the middle of
Manchester and run thin client to all the schools in the LEA providing
all their Office and other productivity tools with no licensing costs
and a fully managed service. Now that would save large amounts of money
and provide some real leadership to the rest of the education service
;-)
--
ian
This is what I set up with Cable & Wireless a year ago. We had two Pilot Schools in London and it worked perfectly over the Internet with 15 networked computers. Unfortunately after the successful Pilot Cable & Wireless decided to close down their A-Services (ASP) Division and make everyone redundant, so I am still looking for someone else to take this on. Regards, Grahame ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Grahame Leon-Smith, Chairman of Trustees Tel +44-1932-874303 Fax +44-1932-874068 FREE COMPUTERS FOR EDUCATION Registered Charity No. 1059116 PLEASE VISIT OUR WEB SITE AT < http://www.free-computers.org> and for further information just send a blank email to: < mailto:free-computers-news-subscribe@yahoogroups.com> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -----Original Message----- From: ian [mailto:ian.lynch2@ntlworld.com] Sent: 14 May 2003 12:11 To: suse-linux-uk-schools@suse.com Subject: RE: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Using older machines for the internet On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 11:54, Chris Puttick wrote:
Have friends in high places... Well, connections with a university that's involved in the JANet backbone. It's 1000 base LX into the heart of NW JANet and our firewall is the limiting factor (only got 100Mb card on the LAN side...). Also we were told in no uncertain terms that if we ever used the bandwidth available we'd be cut off. Which seems fair! We've never peaked past 4Mb according to Fluke.
Just think, you could have a massive server farm in the middle of
Manchester and run thin client to all the schools in the LEA providing
all their Office and other productivity tools with no licensing costs
and a fully managed service. Now that would save large amounts of money
and provide some real leadership to the rest of the education service
;-)
--
ian
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