From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 21 18:24:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from css-1.cs.iastate.edu (css-1.cs.iastate.edu [129.186.3.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F57637B42C for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 18:24:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from popeye.cs.iastate.edu (ghelmer@popeye.cs.iastate.edu [129.186.3.4]) by css-1.cs.iastate.edu (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id UAA09100; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 20:24:40 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (ghelmer@localhost) by popeye.cs.iastate.edu (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id UAA21137; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 20:24:36 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: popeye.cs.iastate.edu: ghelmer owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 20:24:35 -0500 (CDT) From: Guy Helmer To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: legg@iastate.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Iowa State Univ. In-Reply-To: <20000821181646.K4854@fw.wintelcom.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * legg@iastate.edu [000821 17:41] wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am a student at Iowa State. I just recently installed FreeBSD and was > > successful at doing that. But no sooner than I did that, the computation > > center here started requiring an 'electronic regristration' of all > > computers that use university managed network services. The result, I am > > in a computer lab doing my e-mail and internet work. > > > > What I am looking for is to see if anybody knows any organization in which > > I can post grevieances too. ISU has a bad habit of shoving off student > > complaints in the computation center. If there is any organization that > > will stand up for me, that would be nice, because I suddenly feel very > > alone. > > I'm not sure what the problem is with registering a FreeBSD machine > on thier network, is there a specific policy against it? > > Do you have a URL to this policy? It'd be pretty nice to see it > up on slashdot if it's some form of 'super-evil MIS dept gone insane' > type situation. As I understand it, there is a procedure for registering a MAC address to obtain an IP address via DHCP in the dorms. There is nothing against FreeBSD or any other O/S. This registration procedure was recently discussed on the local Free UNIX user's group mail list under the subject "Linux on the ISU network (in a dorm room)" (the archive is at http://www.aafugit.org/lists/aafugit/index.php3?tid=0&uid=0). Guy Guy Helmer, Ph.D. Candidate, Iowa State University Dept. of Computer Science Research Assistant, Dept. of Computer Science --- ghelmer@cs.iastate.edu http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~ghelmer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message