U of A Computing Services rules with an iron fist. If you do anything on their network that they find questionable, they shut down your network drop and then come over to ask questions. Sometimes they just shut off your drop and wait for you to call them. I had been running a hub off my drop so I could hook up my laptop and the lithe server simultaneously, but it was causing too many packet collisions. Now I’m going to do it via IP masquerade (even though my laptop has a static IP) so I can run both boxes off the same drop with no conflicts. To the rest of the world, it will just look like one box (lithe).
If that turns out to be too much trouble, I can have a second drop installed, but I’d rather figure out how to do IP masquerade anyway, so, in the long run, it’s a good thing.
I’ve been working feverishly on some training handouts to teach our staff how to use various pieces of gear we’ve fairly recently aquired. The first of these is the CD-ROM burner (a QPS Que! USB). Lots of screenshots, lots of step by step examples.