(post and mail)

Hey, Rafael -- Thanks for the consistent reporting!

As my Friday email indicated, Tyler and I stopped by SOE on Thursday.  (This quarter I'm generally not working Fridays, else I would have tried to coincide with your time at the school and look at some of these things together.)  But Thursday evening I just conked out early, and didn't get to some emails until Friday morning &mdash;  too late, in the event, for that request about the virus on the teacher computer in 110 to reach you in time.  

But no matter &mdash; it wasn't urgent, just something we had deferred; and in any event, of course you should use your judgement and deal with what you're presented with on the scene. 

My main point in that email was to check that we're all getting on the same page about the network in 110.  Whatever was going on previously with the DHCP/DNS configs, maybe your problem calls have prompted them to clear it up, or maybe it was spontaneous.  The only odd addresses we saw were the internal-generated 169.254.*.* IPs on the disconnected computers or those on the mis-plugged mini Linksys switch.   

I think the best-in-the-circumstances plan for Choate's room (110) would be some chaining of a wired, Ethernet / CAT5 network.  Tyler and I got the south wall online with that approach.  For the west wall (where the windows are), I suppose there's the preliminary problem of getting the computers re-assembled and running on their own ... at the very least, this means locating the keyboards and mice.  But if that hurdle can be overcome, all the computers along that side could be plugged into the 16-port switch Mr. Choate has in his storage cabinet, and that in turn could get an uplink thru the Netgear switch already in place under the table by the south wall.  

I can't envision a scheduling that would get the full-scale CUIP team all over there (especially when not in use by a class). But maybe Russ can figure this out, and consult with Mr. Bailey about the hardware.

  Thanks again,

   ==Mitch

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