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Re: Gaming and dorm students
From: "Hahues, Sven" <shahues () FGCU EDU>
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 17:07:33 +0000
I am late to the party but here's what we do: We got the charge from our housing administration to make living in housing as close to living at home as possible, so we have totally unfiltered Internet, and a dedicated publically routable network for playstations/xboxs to get around the NAT complications. It's great for the students, it's hard for us, because we never have enough bandwidth. We have recently deployed an Exinda traffic shaping device (like 2 weeks ago) but we are still in the process of tuning it. We have a system that ties in with our NAC that will automatically move p2p users into a quarantine network, and they get told they violated our networks acceptable use policy. This helps us for the most part with the RIAA/MPAA complaints. Depending on the amount of people in your dorms, the sign in sheet may work, or you could allow everything from the dorms, and just log who does what. If you get an RIAA notice, you can suspend the users network access. Just some ideas. Sven -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Bob Williamson Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 9:24 PM To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU Subject: [SECURITY] Gaming and dorm students I am the network admin at a small K-12 private school. We have about 90 dorm students. A problem I am running into is enabling the dorm students to be able to use normal games like "World of Wrcraft", "League of Legends", etc. It seems a lot of these games are using bittorrent on the backend. Without digging into the specifics, how are others handling the dormers requests? Telling them no does not seem appropriate, but not letting them play seems bogus. I was toying with the idea of having the individuals sign a sheet saying they will not use bittorent for illegal purposes. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Note that I am using a Palo Alto so can handle filtering by user and app level. Bob Williamson Network Administrator Annie Wright Schools | 827 N Tacoma Ave, Tacoma, WA 98403 | www.aw.org <http://www.aw.org/> D: 253.272.2216 | F: 253.572.3616 | Bob_Williamson () aw org Mission: Annie Wright's strong community cultivates individual learners to become well-educated, creative, and responsible citizens for a global society. Find Annie Wright Schools on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/anniewrightschools> Follow our Head of Schools on Twitter @AWShead <http://www.twitter.com/awshead> ________________________________ No department at FGCU will EVER ask you for your username and password in person or through e-mail. If you receive an e-mail requesting your EagleMail or FGCU email password, DO NOT respond. Delete the e-mail immediately. If you receive a questionable e-mail, please contact the Help Desk at 239-590-1188. ________________________________ BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY SERVICES WILL NEVER ASK FOR YOUR PASSWORD. You should never give out your username or password for any accounts you have, including bank accounts, credit card accounts, and other personal or University accounts. Business Technology Services will never contact you using a return e-mail address that is not @fgcu.edu. If you receive a questionable e-mail or an e-mail asking for passwords and logon information, DO NOT RESPOND, and please contact the Help Desk at 239-590-1188.
Current thread:
- Gaming and dorm students Bob Williamson (Jan 14)
- Re: Gaming and dorm students Jeff Kell (Jan 14)
- Re: Gaming and dorm students Tim Doty (Jan 15)
- Re: Gaming and dorm students Chris Golden (Feb 01)
- Re: Gaming and dorm students Bradley, Stephen (Jan 15)
- Re: Gaming and dorm students Bob Williamson (Jan 15)
- Re: Gaming and dorm students Behun, Michael (Jan 15)
- Re: Gaming and dorm students Bob Williamson (Jan 15)
- Re: Gaming and dorm students King, Ronald A. (Jan 15)
- Re: Gaming and dorm students Hahues, Sven (Jan 17)
- Re: Gaming and dorm students Loftus, Steven E (Jan 17)
- Re: Gaming and dorm students Jeff Kell (Jan 14)