[K12OSN] Talking to school about K12LTSP

[Rob Owens]

The problem with shutting down eth1 on the server, as
some have suggested, is that it will cut off internet
access *and* all other network connectivity such as
file shares, etc.  This may not be a problem for you
if your /home folders are not on a central server. 

You could set up some rules on a school-wide firewall
that would allow/disallow internet access to certain
servers, without disrupting network share connections.
 CensorNet or IPCop have this feature built in (I
can't remember which, but I tested both and one of
them had that feature).  

-Rob

--- Henry Hartley <henryhartley at westat.com> wrote:

> 
> I recently met with the technology guy at my
> daughter's school.  He's
> not really a Linux person but has no real beef with
> it.  He's just not
> needed it for much up to now.  He does use Linux for
> a proxy server and
> running DansGuardian so he's not averse to using it
> where it suits him.
> He's also got an engineering degree from MIT so I'm
> guessing he's pretty
> bright.
> 
> The school is in transition right now, having moved
> out (in the summer
> of 2005 after 16 years) of a rented location into
> two temporary
> locations (one church for the elementary school,
> another for the middle
> and high school).  The school has purchased 60 acres
> and hopes to be
> moving into their new facility by January, 2008
> (although it may not
> happen before the following summer).
> 
> One topic of our conversation was K12LTSP. 
> Currently, the school relies
> almost entirely on wireless networking because of
> the nature of the
> facility.  Plans for the new facility, however, do
> include network
> cabling.  There is something of a lab right now but
> it is basically
> laptop computers that share storage space on a
> network server.  Windows,
> naturally.  I gave a brief overview of K12LTSP, as
> best I could.  He had
> a few questions and I thought I'd start with this
> one.  Actually, after
> this, I may simply suggest he join the list and ask
> for himself, since
> he'll be in a better position to ask the right
> questions.
> 
> Sometimes, when students are using his lab
> computers, he wants them to
> have internet access, so they can do research. 
> Other times, he wants
> them to NOT have internet access, mostly because he
> wants them focused
> on what they are doing.  No point in tempting teens.
>  He wondered if it
> would be possible to schedule this sort of thing
> centrally, either by
> class, by student, or by hardware.  That is, let's
> say he has two carts
> of computers which can roam to the various
> classrooms.  From 8:30 to
> noon, he wants one cart to have internet access and
> the other not to.
> Form noon to 3, they both should.  Or, from 8:30 to
> 10:00, the students
> in this class have internet access, this other class
> does not.  That
> sort of thing.  Is that something that's hard, easy,
> or just too much of
> a headache to deal with?
> 
> -- 
> Henry
> 
> 
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