[Server-devel] physical security issue

[Sameer Verma]

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 8:00 PM, John Watlington <wad at laptop.org> wrote:
>
> You keep pushing for centrally hosted school servers.
> Are you sure you don't work for the phone company ?
>

Last time I checked, San Francisco State University wasn't in the
telco business.

> Again, unless you have a 100 Mbit connection from the
> school to the upstream ISP, you will need something with
> a disk and a significant amount of memory present in the
> school.
>

OK.

> I don't disagree about the need for physical security of
> the machine, just the proposed solution.
>

OK. Any other solutions? I'm all ears.

Sameer

> wad
>
> On Oct 7, 2008, at 10:47 PM, Sameer Verma wrote:
>
>> As if discussions on this list aren't lively enough, here's another
>> issue to look at.
>>
>> While I was in Jamaica, I met with several people who work with their
>> school districts, and many pointed out that if a server was to stay
>> physically resident at the school, it will need a lot of physical
>> security. The most common problem is theft. The other problem will be
>> physical damage (just because somebody can). It is not uncommon in
>> some of these
>>
>> If the school server is hosted at an ISP upstream, we need something
>> small (maybe an XO?) at the school that can VLAN or VPN over to the
>> school server at the ISP/Data Center.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> cheers,
>> Sameer
>> --
>> Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
>> Associate Professor of Information Systems
>> San Francisco State University
>> San Francisco CA 94132 USA
>> http://verma.sfsu.edu/
>> http://opensource.sfsu.edu/
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