Disabling student access is not the answer.  Students have a just as
legitimate need to use the internet as faculty and staff.  It seems to me
that the GRU backup link preformed well.  Sure sites were slow, but I was
able to get what I needed.

I think what is needed is a better way to inform students, faculty and staff
at times when bandwidth needs to be conserved.  I'm guessing that if asked
to on a very occasional basis, students, faculty and staff would curtail
some of their bandwidth usage during outages.

My $0.02.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Clausen [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 1:12 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Internet/Internet2 curiousity....
>
>
> Given that we're on Day #2 of no OC-12 and our backup OC-3 is
> still pretty
> pegged out at 45Mbps.... What is NERDC's contingency plan to provide
> maximum bandwith to faculty/staff/classes? If the primary
> connection does
> in fact go out, are there provisions to cut off say, DHNET
> connections to
> dorm students so people utilizing their favorite GNUtella client don't
> impact on faculty/staff trying to work?
>
> Student computer labs? Walk-up ports? You get the idea... I'd
> be curious
> to hear from NERDC or even from other people at large about
> even possibly
> developing a campus-wide contingency plan in the event of a primary
> internet/internet2 connection failure (especially now since both
> connections are going over the same physical connection) so that we as
> computer coordinators can provide maximum availability to our
> faculty and
> staff. Just today I've had about 5 people ask me in the span
> of 30 minutes
> what the status is on our internet connection since they are having
> difficulties transferring data to other educational facilities. I'm
> perfectly willing to disable student access in the event of UF's
> connection going down to provide our faculty and staff with
> the maximum
> amount of bandwith as possible.
>
> -----
> Matthew R. Clausen
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> Senior Systems Programmer
> Department of Physics, 2148 NPB                   Voice:
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> University of Florida                               Fax:
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>