Re: [school-discuss] LTSP and school-provided networks on same physical infrastructure

["Stewart M. Ives" <ivessm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Daniel,

I don't think whether you have Cat5 or Cat5e cabling will make any difference
to your upgrade as long as it is AT LEAST Cat5 so don't spin your wheels
trying to figure out if that cable above the ceiling is Cat5 or Cat5e.

One of the biggest helps to anyone will be a physical map/diagram of your
network and who/what is where.  This physical map is different that a virtual map.
 
stew

---------- Original Message -----------
From: Daniel Howard <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: schoolforge-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 18:04:11 -0400
Subject: Re: [school-discuss] LTSP and school-provided networks on same
physical infrastructure

> Thanks for all the great advice Don and Stew.  First thing tomorrow, 
> I'll categorize what we have now in terms of switches and cabling 
> (whether it is Cat5e or just Cat5, in case we do end up buying some 
> new switches) and see where we go from there to implement a VLAN 
> solution as much as possible.  Stew, even if we do hire a tech 
> expert to help us, it never hurts to do as much homework ahead of 
> time as possible :-)
> 
> As an aside, I wonder if it wouldn't be a good idea for this group 
> to come up with some sort of reference architecture for school 
> networks that includes typical cases and variations so that the 
> K12LTSP and Edubuntu folks can use it as a 'design to' for new 
> features/capabilities in their software.  The folks we've talked to 
> thus far have either set up K12LTSP servers in computer labs, or did 
> the entire school with K12LTSP (like Riverdale).  I suspect that our 
> case, of having to gradually infuse K12LTSP into the network, while 
> maintaining existing PCs that require authentication, might be quite 
> typical of schools wanting to do this, but who have hesitant 
> district IT personnel to deal with.
> 
> Thanks again to all for a great resource,
> Daniel
> 
> Daniel Howard
> President and CEO
> Quadrock Communications, Inc
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