Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Campus Bandwidth Update
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The anomaly that prevented us from utilizing our full bandwidth has been corrected. We now have a full 20+Mb/s of bandwidth, up from 6. The throttling for streaming content (audio and video) has been raised from 1Mb/s to 15Mb/s. Note that it is the responsibility of all faculty and staff to use this new allocation judiciously. Streaming content uses up bandwidth quickly. It is a violation of state ethics rules for employees to use this bandwidth for anything other than academic and college business purposes. This new capability will allow our students to access rich content much more reliably.
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Thursday, September 20, 2007
Internet Problem Update
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K-20 reports that service on the K20 network returned to normal at approximately 11:25. The event was caused when a K20 upstream provider made a routing configuration change that was not expected to be service impacting. Service restored when they rolled back to the previous configuration. No further outages are expected.
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Internet Problems
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K-20 reports that beginning at about 11:10 this morning Internet service between K20 and its upstream provider was lost. Network engineers are investigating but the cause has not yet been determined. Updates will be provided as information becomes available.
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Network Bandwidth
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We are currently investigating problems with our new bandwidth allocation on the K20 network. Once our usage goes above 12mbs we are experiencing unacceptable level of errors. Until the issue is resolved we are limiting the bandwidth to 10mbs. This is more bandwidth than we had previously but less than the 20mbs contracted for.
John Wayne
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Friday, September 07, 2007
Farewell to oscar
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The HPUX server "oscar" is being decommissioned. This computer was the college's original web server and Listserve server. It has been used for Unix and web design classes. It provided email relay services and time synchronization services for our network devices. Services on this box are now being disabled one at a time so we can identify any remaining systems that depend on it. This amazing computer has served our college well.
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Tuesday, September 04, 2007
Credit Union Phishing Scam E-mail Messages
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We are seeing fraudulent e-mails purported to be from School Employees Credit Union of Washington. The bogus messages may vary slightly, but they invariably ask you to update your personal information due to some issue with your account. SECUWA sent out messages to their members last week warning of this impending scam. If you receive such an e-mail, do not respond or click any link embedded in the e-mail. Simply delete it. If you have responded this, or any other similar e-mail, contact your financial institution immediately. Note that no reputable organization will ever contact you to ask for your account number. They already have this information. No employee of any organization should ever ask you for your PIN numbers. If this happens, report it to the organization management.
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