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[previous article]If you use a Macintosh workstation connected to the Engineering Mac Network you may have noticed that you now reside in a zone. Each zone serves a particular physical network (an ethernet) and each physical network serves a particular building. It is not too hard to figure out that the zones are named according to building or engineering affiliation.
Zone name Location ---------------------------------------------------- Aeronautical Grissom (third floor) Chemical Chemical Engineering Civil Civil Engineering (new wing) Electrical Electrical Engineering Enad Engineering Administration ERC Potter (ERC Lab) Industrial Grissom (second floor) Mechanical Mechanical Engineering Potter Potter Building Student My test zone (future maclab zone) Twilight MSEE (changing soon,...sigh)
More zones are to come as more kinetics boxes are added to the network! Currently the zones map to engineering buildings quite nicely. However, more and more Macintosh labs are branching off into their own zones for security, privacy, and traffic reasons. In the future it will be much less apparent where they are (I'm not sure if that is good or bad). The mac network map is available on the "ECN Public" file server in the Twilight zone.
If you believe you are not in the right zone (for example, you have to change zones to use your LaserWriter or Aufs server) send me mail (moyman@degree) and I will see if something can be worked out. Watch out! Up ahead....the next stop...THE TWILIGHT ZONE!
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