<quote who="Sean Donelan">
On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, David A. Ulevitch wrote:
How many times did you disable the same user's network access because they didn't actually fix their computer but told you it was fixed?
Just once, if they weren't patched they were automatically turned down again. (automated, not human processing)
Forever? So the student can never use the university network again for as long as he or she remains at the school? Even if he or she promises the computer is really fixed this time?
Every dorm has a "residential computer consultant" who can throw the student's MAC_ADDR into a form and have it removed from the blocks. Doing this let's them get a routable IP address again. If they are still spewing traffic or other ungoodness they are blocked within a couple minutes. The students *want* to get their machines fixed when the realize thay lying about fixing it doesn't work. -davidu
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