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Those of you who are Juniper shops, do any of you use EX-2200’s in production? I’ve looked at the specifications and they appear to be similar to systems I bought 10 years ago, but I’m being pressured to cut costs.
Comments (on the units and their use/functionality)?
-Brian
Standard disclaimer: Vendors, please don’t call/email me on this. I’m looking for advice, not resellers. Thank you.
Greetings netman list
I have been gifted an SMC 8848M tigerstack switch with no passwords.
Does anyone have any info on how to reset one of these to factory default without having to ship it back to the distributor?
I have only found references to a version 1 manual that had the procedure on it but I cannot for the life of me find it.
If anyone has a clue how this is accomplished I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks in advance!
Michael Horne
Network Engineer
Franklin W Olin College of Engineering
1000 Olin Way, Milas Hall, Suite LL18
Needham, MA 02492
1-781-292-2438
...Have anyone looked at the new SkyDrive Sync app for your PC. It allows remote access to all your shared folders including network shares from any browser. This seems to have a huge security implication Any thoughts.
Bruce Marshall
Manager, Network/Server Systems
Valencia College
Orlando, Fl 32811
All,
We’re filling out our yearly USNWR survey, and I’m struggling with the numbers to report. The wired section is fairly straight forward to report on, but the wireless section isn’t so much.
We’ve never had the data-sheet client numbers connected to our wireless infrastructure, so we only have our very own real-world numbers (avg 1200, max 2100). We are running three Aruba sup II’s and have (mostly) AP-65’s with a single campus SSID and an open guest network campus-wide. I’ve heard the 65’s were supposedly designed for 24 simultaneous users, and well, that gives us 14K theoretical client connections.
How have you quantified a number for, “indicate the total approximate number of simultaneous users that can be...
We are beginning to get requests for Macs on campus. As we are a Windows domain the two areas of concern for me are security and control. I know others have Macs on their domains so I’m interested how others are handling the introduction of Macs on their network. My main questions are related to antivirus, patch management, and any software that may not run on a Mac.
What other issues do you have with Macs on your network?
Hi,
We are currently using ATI for our loud speakers on campus. The ATI system is used for chimes, sirens, and verbalizing emergency broadcast messages over the speakers. The speakers are loud enough that we hear them inside the buildings. In the past, ATI has done well at accommodating RAVE into their interface. We use RAVE for our texting portion. When we need to text an alert out to our Faculty/Staff and students, we go to the ATI interface and click on some button that invokes RAVE to text out the message. We love this setup because it gives one interface to our emergency responders. They don’t have to remember how to logon to this system and that other system when they are in ‘crazy mode’ trying to respond to an emergency.
Now, we have added Alertus. We are using Alertus to send a pop...
We may have a need to do NATing on a large scale for wireless in our sports arena, possibly up to 16,000 addresses. We are prepared to use multiple devices if we have to. Can anyone recommend an approach for this?
Thanks,
Pete Morrissey
Sorry for the cross posting. Normally try to avoid it. I posted on Security and there wasn’t much of a response. So I thought I might try here.
Anyone have any experience and willing to chat via email or phone? I can summarize if there is any interest.
I’d love to know how long you’ve used them, bandwidth and population sizes, how you are utilizing the box, what protections you have active, if you are using Application based rules, etc. Good things, not so good things.
Thanks.
Chris
Chris Davis
CIS Security Manager
The Principia
We have traditionally been a Packetshaper shop for a very long time. I’ve grown a bit dis-satisfied with a number of things over the years, and it looks like we will need to make some fairly expensive upgrades in the not too distant future to one of my shapers.
Plus, my confidence in the deep packet inspection abilities of the shaper is not as high as it once was.
I’m also looking at a next generation firewall and my confidence is much higher in the dpi capabilities of that device for denying stuff like p2p.
So, that all said, I’ve been looking at a product to equalize my bandwidth more than shape it. I have seen people on this list mention the NetEqualizer quite often, and would be interested...
We are looking to save a few bucks on an upcoming campus core upgrade by using 3rd party 10 Gbps SFP+ optics in place of Cisco’s optics. Actually the prices are a fraction of Cisco’s. We are considering Champion One and Transition Network. Has anyone used either of these products? Have they been reliable? Are there other vendors that you would recommend?
Thanks,
Ron
I’m wondering if anyone is running into latency issues with YouTube? We have no issues with streaming video to other external sites. We are having internal conversations within our network group, and we are wondering if it’s possible YouTube is rate limiting our net block? I’m curious to know if anyone else has ran into this issue.
Thanks!
Mike Finnel
Network Administrator
Marquette University
Can anyone recommend a call center solution that they are using for public safety. We are looking for something that has all the basic call center features as well as possible radio integration as well as geographic location. It is not a PSAP or 911 center, but they are interested in NG 911 including taking in calls from texts, skype etc.
Thanks,
Pete Morrissey
Director of Networking
Syracuse University
We are considering outsourcing our resnet to an external provider. For those that have done this, can you share some of the successes and pitfalls that you encountered along the way? Was it cost beneficial? Our resnet is fully wired and wireless so I am also wondering how this was handled. Did the outsourcing company lease back the infrastructure from the University?
Thanks,
Mike
Michael Hizny
Binghamton Univeristy
Apologies for cross-postings. Please send it to interested
colleagues and students. Thanks!
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Greetings,
Does anyone know of a way to speed up BGP convergence time? We are dual homed and run BGP to prefer one provider while the other is used as a backup. When the primary goes down due to a failure or planned maintenance, it takes about 30 seconds for inbound traffic to fail over to the backup provider resulting in an outage for the users. If someone knows of a way to speed up the process and reduce the down time we would appreciate it.
Thanks,
Ron Bunal
Syracuse University
Information Technology and Services
rmbunal@syr.edu
315-443-3536
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Good morning,
Anyone seen a phishing attack using a cached version of your own e-mail login page? We just received one this morning that seemed to be using a compromised apache server (signsoflifemissions.org) and using a mod_rewrite command to call our login page.
Here's how the URL was crafted: http://signsoflifemissions.org/cache/mail.our.edu/mail.our.htm
Justin Bennett
Supervisor of Network Technology
Information Technology
jbennett@msjc.edu
Mt. San Jacinto College
Phone 951-639-5090
http://www.msjc.edu
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· Satisfaction/disappointment- what do you like and not?
· Yes – it just keeps working and it runs on VMs.
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· How long have you used Juniper? How long do you expect to keep going with them for RADIUS?
· At least five years and likely at least another three-five.
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· How robust do you find the reporting features? Anything not there that you rely on other sources to get?
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I hope job postings are OK as far as list etiquette goes. If not, I apologize.
Information Resources at Rowan University has 24 open positions that we’re looking to fill with the best and the brightest. If you know of anyone who may be interested, please pass this along to them. The openings include:
- Server administrators
- Network administrators
- Assoc. Director for Network Operations
- Support Desk / Help Desk
- DBAs
- ...
Good morning,
We're looking to deploy System Center 2012 SP1. I'm interested in deploying a distributed-server installation instead of continuing with a single-server as we currently run.
My main question has anyone gone to the distributed-server model specially for Operations? We'd like to split up the roles, but at a minimal standpoint - unlike what is depicted on Microsoft's planning guide. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh298610.aspx
We'd be deploying an SQL database dedicated for System Center apps, an Operations Manager server, a Virtual Machine Manager, and an Endpoint Protection Manager server.
Thank you,
Justin Bennett
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Can anyone recommend ISP services in Manhattan? We’ve been using a “Business Class” service which is sometimes more like “cable guy” class.
Thanks,
Pete Morrissey
We are reviewing the use of the Xunlei download manager, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xunlei, on our campus network. The current question is, is this being used for legitimate purposes or another way of illegally sharing copyrighted material. I would be interested to know what others have found about its use and what steps, if any, have been taken.
Thank you
Bruce Entwistle
Network Manager
University of Redlands
(OK, hijack alert)
. We’ve been thinking about using the network drop label/port alias to help with e911 when we move to VoIP. (Very likely Lync). Is there a way using say LLDP-MED to communicate that to the phone, which can communicate its location to a server. It would also assume that you have a good database of where all of your network drops are located, and I...
Current Issue
March/April 2013
EDUCAUSE Review
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October 15–18, 2013
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Whether you're looking for a conference to attend face-to-face to connect with peers, or for an online event for team professional development, see what's upcoming.
EDUCAUSE Institute
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Explore EDUCAUSE professional development opportunities that match your career aspirations and desired level of time investment through our interactive online guide.
Employees of EDUCAUSE member institutions and organizations are invited to create individual profiles.
