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Re: Gaming Devices on the Network
From: Gary Flynn <flynngn () JMU EDU>
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 09:07:47 -0400
Franklin, Elliott wrote:
Now that we have implemented Cisco Clean Access in our residence halls, we are receiving many questions/complaints from both students as well as Residence Life staff about our policy on gaming devices such as PlayStation 2 and X-Box consoles. Unless these devices have a built-in web browser, or the user has a router and authenticates another device behind that router, they will not be able to play Internet games on these devices. We are looking for what other universities are doing in regard to this. We would like to address this issue in our Network Use policy.
What I've heard people do, with the X-Box at least, is change the X-Box MAC address to be the same as the PC mac address, then register the PC and the X-Box will work. I seem to remember the procedure is in an X-Box FAQ somewhere. -- Gary Flynn Security Engineer James Madison University www.jmu.edu/computing/security
Current thread:
- Gaming Devices on the Network Franklin, Elliott (Sep 29)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Gaming Devices on the Network Gillette, Jonathan (Sep 29)
- Re: Gaming Devices on the Network Greg Schaffer (Sep 29)
- Re: Gaming Devices on the Network Gary Flynn (Sep 29)
- Re: Gaming Devices on the Network Greg Schaffer (Sep 29)
- Re: Gaming Devices on the Network Weidner, Steve (Sep 29)
- Re: Gaming Devices on the Network Michael Grinnell (Sep 29)