Re: Risks of File Transfer on a Fully Switched Network

["Scholz, Greg" <gscholz () KEENE EDU>]

I was under the impression that the "deterministic network enhancer" had
something to do with making this decision but have never been able to
find anything substantial on how it worked or even for certain what it
is expected to do.

We have not spent a lot of time on this either, but we do believe we see
the same issue.

_________________________
Thank you,
Gregory R. Scholz
Lead Network Engineer
Information Technology Group
Keene State College
(603)358-2070

-----Original Message-----
From: Cal Frye [mailto:cjf () CALFRYE COM] 
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 12:06 PM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Risks of File Transfer on a Fully Switched
Network

I've observed that on my own system, a TabletPC from Motion Computing
running
the Tablet version of Windows XP, that the wireless connection is
preferred. If
I have both connections active, the (faster!) wired connection loafs
while most
traffic goes wireless. I haven't found a place to change this behaviour,
but I
haven't looked too deeply, either. But it bears strongly on this
discussion, I
think.

--Cal Frye, Network Administrator, Oberlin College
   www.calfrye.com, www.pitalabs.com, www.ouuf.org

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`Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity,
mercy,
forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my
trade
were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!'"
--
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jack suess wrote:
> My own sense is that as wireless becomes more and more widespread on
> campus the idea of saying you would allow ftp on an intranet  "wired"
> connection but not allow ftp on wireless or extranet connection
becomes
> a helpdesk nightmare. My application worked but then it didn't.