-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Andrew Dorsett Sent: March 15, 2004 11:17 PM To: John Kristoff Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?
I'm not referring to the time required to implement. I'm talking about the time it takes for the user. On the user end. Lets do some simple math. Lets say I turn on my laptop before I shower, I power it down during the day while I'm in class and I turn it back on when I get home in the evening. This means two logins per day. Lets say that the login process is very rapid and takes 30 seconds. This is a whole minute per day required to login. Now multiply this by a month and you've wasted 30 minutes of my time. I coulda spent that time watching TV or heaven forbid, doing homework. :) My big thing is that often users are the one who are paying the price and spending the time. I think either system (the mac-ip lookup or the user auth) system could be created in a week using C++ or perl. This week of development is nothing in the long run when compared to the amount of time it now costs the users. Come on, how many users save their mail passwords so they don't have to type it in everytime? What about your dialup password? Too bad I can't automate the web logins.
You must be talking about a different Netreg system that the one everyone else has used. The one we're talking about involves you logging in when you connect with an unknown MAC - once you've used the system to match your MAC to your student number/login/etc, then the DHCP server will give you a real IP the next time you request a lease... Vivien -- Vivien M. vivienm@dyndns.org Assistant System Administrator Dynamic Network Services, Inc. http://www.dyndns.org/