Re: [school-discuss] Success!

["Dave Prentice" <prentice@instruction.com>]

    I have a problem that may run in a similar vein. Last year part of
my school was online. During the summer the building was partially
rewired, with some of the old cat5 cables replaced with fiber optics.
However, the contractor didn't finish the job. They left a fiber optic
cable going in and scores of cat5s coming out of several wiring
closets, but they never got around to installing switches, hubs, or
whatever you want to call them to connect the ins to the outs. That
contractor is now gone, and my school is almost completely offline.
    Does anybody know if there is a fiber optic NIC I could install in
a freesco, or in anything else for that matter? It may be months (if
ever) before the school district gets around to buying and installing
the switches.
Thanks,
Dave Prentice
prentice@instruction.com

-----Original Message-----
From: jkinz@rcn.com <jkinz@rcn.com>
To: schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net
<schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net>
Date: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 11:53 AM
Subject: Re: [school-discuss] Success!


>On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 05:02:59AM -0500, Kyle Hutson wrote:
>> I've got to brag about this, and this group seems like the ones
that
>> would care.
>> ...........
>> Thanks to Linux (FREESCO), I replaced a big expensive Cisco router
>> with a 5 year-old PC that was sitting in a storage cabinet.
>
>Not only do we care, we're interested!  care to give us a few more
>details on what/how it happened ?
>
>Knowing a little more would give folks a great example of just how
>useful and cost effective Linux is!  (or should I say "another"
>great example.. :-) )
>
>C'mon - give with the details already.  Also how is it working out
>as a replacement?  How is it handling the load compared to the
>Cisco equipment ?  faster, slower ? etc ..
>Thanks !
>
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