A/B ethernet switch of Hell
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techrecoveryI'm a tech in a public high school, my desk is in the Macintosh Media lab classroom, which also has 2 teachers. One has a couple of classes in the room, the other is the art and technology teacher. Basically I'm literally trapped between two pre-menopausal women. To further add to the fun mix, there's just one telephone in the room, and a few classes with pregnant students. And it's an "alternative" school which means all the kids (and some of the teachers) have not been able to deal with the regular schools.
The school/district has 2 networks, an administrative one named vlan1, and an instructional one named vlan2, which is what all the classroom computers and printers are on.
Since the art teacher often needs access to the admin network, I had one of the classroom drops switched to it, and ran it to a manual ethernet a/b switch. Since the classroom (instructional, vlan2) was the primary network being used (accessing the printers, using remote desktop to view students computers, file transfers, etc) I made that the "A" switch position and the rarely used administrative (vlan1) the "B" switch position.
It's been like that for over a year.
Today the art teacher was trying to purchase a song on iTunes for use in graduation, and was having trouble. Thinking it may be a network issue, I suggested switching to the "B" position, admin side. That didn't work, so I volunteered to buy it on my computer. While I was registering for my first iTunes account, she tried to print but it wasn't working. I reminded her that she might still be on vlan1, so she should check if she had switched back to position "A"
This resulted in her questioning why vlan1, administrative, wasn't the "A" position.
I started to explain that since the classroom (vlan2) was the primary/most used network I made it "A" and ...
She cut me off to give me a lecture/rant on how I was WRONG, that it should have been "A" for administrative, and that it goes "ABCD" "1234" see the pattern? vlan1 should be "A" and vlan2 should be "B" that's the problem with you, your labeling doesn't make sense.
I tried to explain that there's an alternative viewpoint, since she had ASKED why, but just got cut off again with further "ABC' "123" this is a school there's patterns we have to reinforce to the students you don't engage the population before labeling something you're so arrogant you can't admit you're WRONG.
Funny thing, just last week we were commiserating on how both of us couldn't remember whether the name for the admin side was vlan 1 or 2. And we two are the only ones who touch that switch. And it's been ok for a year.
And the worst part of this?
The part of my soul which holds my Ramones/Grahm Parker/Chili Peppers concert experiences is now begging to lay down on the floor of a mosh pit to be put out of it's misery, since my only iTunes purchase is a Boyz II Men song.
The school/district has 2 networks, an administrative one named vlan1, and an instructional one named vlan2, which is what all the classroom computers and printers are on.
Since the art teacher often needs access to the admin network, I had one of the classroom drops switched to it, and ran it to a manual ethernet a/b switch. Since the classroom (instructional, vlan2) was the primary network being used (accessing the printers, using remote desktop to view students computers, file transfers, etc) I made that the "A" switch position and the rarely used administrative (vlan1) the "B" switch position.
It's been like that for over a year.
Today the art teacher was trying to purchase a song on iTunes for use in graduation, and was having trouble. Thinking it may be a network issue, I suggested switching to the "B" position, admin side. That didn't work, so I volunteered to buy it on my computer. While I was registering for my first iTunes account, she tried to print but it wasn't working. I reminded her that she might still be on vlan1, so she should check if she had switched back to position "A"
This resulted in her questioning why vlan1, administrative, wasn't the "A" position.
I started to explain that since the classroom (vlan2) was the primary/most used network I made it "A" and ...
She cut me off to give me a lecture/rant on how I was WRONG, that it should have been "A" for administrative, and that it goes "ABCD" "1234" see the pattern? vlan1 should be "A" and vlan2 should be "B" that's the problem with you, your labeling doesn't make sense.
I tried to explain that there's an alternative viewpoint, since she had ASKED why, but just got cut off again with further "ABC' "123" this is a school there's patterns we have to reinforce to the students you don't engage the population before labeling something you're so arrogant you can't admit you're WRONG.
Funny thing, just last week we were commiserating on how both of us couldn't remember whether the name for the admin side was vlan 1 or 2. And we two are the only ones who touch that switch. And it's been ok for a year.
And the worst part of this?
The part of my soul which holds my Ramones/Grahm Parker/Chili Peppers concert experiences is now begging to lay down on the floor of a mosh pit to be put out of it's misery, since my only iTunes purchase is a Boyz II Men song.
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Date: 2006-06-22 01:51 pm (UTC)Heck, if she keeps complaining, tape labels over "A" and "B", calling them "Purple Monkey Dishwasher" and "Kumquat". At least no-one will ever get them mixed up.
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Date: 2006-06-22 02:07 pm (UTC)(and maybe one day use)
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Date: 2006-06-23 02:44 am (UTC)Technically, under HIPAA, you are tying them together...
Have you considered making the resources on the student network available on the staff network? I can see how it may be unfeasable, but there are ways.
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Date: 2006-06-23 03:05 am (UTC)I did ask the district tech supervisor if it was ok, and since it's a mechanical switch he was fine with it.
Got a apple district tech comming in next week to set up a newish G5 server, so we plan to ask about admin side access (maybe there's a DMZ it can be put into, though I'm not hopeful)
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