Orientation ‘05

I have been working for ITS helping out the freshmen connect to the network properly and whatnot. Damn, those freshmen cause trouble.

On Tuesday, somehow one of them was soo mis-configured they actually brought down the network in the Library for about a half hour. Today, we had soo many appointments and laptops connected through daisy-linked switches, that we actually caused the Library network to run out of IP addresses to assign through DHCP, being that DHCP reserves an IP for each computer at that time for 24 hours. They shortened the reserving time a bit, so that for tomorrow all the unused IP addresses should actually be available.

The orientation program I developed over the whole summer for ITS, saw all of seven freshmen attend. Maybe if more had attended they would not be running into soo many problems now…