Ten Open-Ended Thoughts
- Wouldn't it have been savory if the tree sitters had nested in Boalt's recently razed Stinky Trees?
- When Top Dog 'catered' the Career Fair, they didn't just hand over their kolbassas, wursts, and wieners. Instead they gave mini-vouchers to the visiting law firms who in turn used them to feed only the students who dropped by to mingle and exchange pleasantries. In other words, the firms used their control of a communal resource to impose self-serving transaction costs. Brilliant!
- The Federalist Society's free pocket Constitution is noticeably thinner than comparable publications. Yet nobody seems to notice.
- Barton Fink may have been filmed at the Hotel Durant.
- Whoever owns the laptop that keeps screwing up Boalt's AirBears network must be neutralized before the situation comes to a boil.
- Assuming the world hasn't imploded, how much will an "Obama 2008" t-shirt be worth on eBay in 2040?
- When writing in casebooks, pens make you feel messy; mechanical pencils make you feel smart.
- Speaking of feeling smart, did anyone call Billings Learned Hand out when he began self-applying his middle name?
- Why is it so difficult to release the Spring course list before the Fall semester beings? Or the Fall course list prior to the Spring semester? Or anything at all, before ever?
- What happened to Boalt Briefs?
posted by Patrick Bageant at 6:24 AM
20 Comments:
Re #4: You are correct. And I felt like John Turturro for every second of OCIP.
#5? really?
What is the deal with airbears? Someone named their personal wireless card airbears or something? Can we somehow do away with this person?
Yes, and yes. FWIW I'm pretty sure this person is in my tax class.
2:00, it must be you!!! Watch your back.
On the AirBears situation... There is a laptop on the wireless network running a DHCP server. The boalt IT guys have its MAC address, but can't find it. I talked to them and it seems like there is nothing they can do about it short of finding the laptop. For what its worth the laptop's workgroup name is ChristinaM. It should be possible to use iptables or something similar to drop all incoming packets from this laptop/DHCP server.
ChristinaM. I can see how that would be impossible to track down.
I don't see how they can have the MAC address but not the person's CalnetID. The router's all know MACs & IPs. You have to sign on with your CalnetID to get web access, which records your CalnetID & IP. Intersect the two at the same time and you find the person. Even easier (and more permanently), write a script to scan the DHCP server port on CalnetID logon, and drop anyone who has a DHCP Server with a message & error message informing them to contact IT.
6:36 - I actually asked them about just blocking the MAC address on CalNet or on the layer2/switch level. They told me that this person has not signed on to CalNet -- I really don't know if I should believe them. Why would someone connect to AirBears and never sign on to CalNet? What I don't get is why they wouldn't be able to block that MAC address on the layer 2 network. According to IT they can't do this because the laptop's traffic is not actually being switched through AirBears. AirBears is unsecured, and wireless is a shared medium network, so in theory it is possible that they are right. I just don't know enough about wireless to know for sure.
So wait... what's the problem? Someone is running a DHCP server named AirBears?
Is this the problem that's happening in the reading room? Where you can detect the network but can't pull up the Airbears Login page, and it just keeps rescanning for networks?
I was under the impression this was the problem of the network not being able to assign us an IP. I'm pretty network savvy too, so if I'm mistaken and this is indeed the same problem, could someone explain exactly what's going on?
My fury in the morning at not being able to login could choke a centaur.
That's definitely wrong, unless the laptop was broadcasting itself as "Airbears" and as a network rather than a peer-to-peer computer connection. No one would connect to the rogue DHCP server unless they were trying to connect to Airbears which means either: the rogue DHCP server is connected to Airbears or the rogue DHCP server is broadcasting itself the same as Airbears. The later possibility is less likely to be an accident and much more likely to be malicious. The real solution in that case is what they should have done a long time ago: go away from unencrypted + CalnetID to a WPA-2 enterprise logon system with Radius and certificates.
Since the computer's workgroup is ChristinaM, it's doubtful it's broadcasting as Airbears, so the IT guys probably aren't quite getting it. To be fair, I had the same problem with Comcast and good luck even talking to someone at Comcast about what a DHCP server is.
You can fix the problem yourself in windows by 1) waiting for the Airbears connection to work, then 2) typing "cmd" into the run box (or vista's start search box) 3) typing ipconfig and then pressing RETURN into the black window 4) Write down the default gateway's IP address for the Wireless Connection 5) In Control Panel > Network Connections, right click on the wireless Connection, select properties 6) then Select Internet Protocal Version 4 (TCP/IPv4)and Click Properties 7) then click Advanced, then click Add under Default Gateways 8) then type in the IP address you wrote down in step 4, click Add, and then click OK to close all the windows.
Remember this (at least steps 1-4) can only be done while the Airbears is working to get the right default gateway. Alternatively you can call the IT and get the right default gateway IP. Next-time ChristinaM connects the computer will look and find the correct Berkeley DHCP server first.
Can someone explain this in lay terms for the less technically savy?
i miss boalt brifs. it was simply awesome.
but then again, we no longer have lockers to leave them in.
9:53 here: briefs*
Re. 11:18's request, could someone please NOT do that. Thanks.
What is a MAC address, and how is it affecting AirBears?
So... should we be worried about this AirBears situation? Is someone trying to steal our info?
so I am getting the same thing in my corporations class... should we just narrow it down by schedule? =)
Goddamn Macs. I knew we never should have let them into our law school. They're out there with their snazzy ads and their rock and roll and...
matt.. they are talking about Media Access Control address (MAC address)not the beloved Apple products you silly!
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