Would my university know if I put a router in my room

[ScottMac]

Originally posted by: eelw

Originally posted by: ScottMac
- Also not presented, but still true: Connecting a few machines to a SOHO router does not make you a Swinging-Dick Network Person. Even if you "read a lot." Professionals or students acting under professional supervision are way ahead of you ... even with the vast knowledge and experience bestowed with your CCNA or Network+ certificate. Again, Trust Me.

WTF are you talking about???????? It's clearly obvious the OP intentions is not to be an elite hacker to impress his fellow college mates. Where this dumbass comment came out of the blue, who knows. I guess your 20 years of network experience crap that you're spewing has gotten to your head.

That was directed to those trying to "Help" the OP with bad advice ....(like " put a router in and they won't know")

The "20 years of network experience crap" was to set a basis of credability. I'm not a home networker, I've been in the business for a while.

Sorry to upset you ....

FWIW

Scott

 

[eflat]

Originally posted by: ColdFusion718
MAC adddress = Media Access Control address... that guy you called is an idiot, thinking that it's a Mac computer lol.

No, he knew what he was talking about. I made the bad Mac joke

I know the guy that runs the ResNet operation well. I go in and ask him computer questions for about 25 minutes every day until he kicks me out. So he keeps a close eye on my IP, MAC port or whatever.

He is also aware of the business I am rather illegally (if you are a big enough dork to call breaking ResNet and College Housing rules illegal) running out of my dorm room.



In conclusion:

I will probably just keep swapping cables. I have an extra cable so all I have to do is extend my right arm to do so.

I might try the cloned MAC address if I get bored just to try to pull a fast one on the guy that runs ResNet.

It sounds like a switch is so unlikely that it would not even be worth the $10 it would cost, but if I get a hold of one I'll try it just for kicks.

Or I could sell the PC and just keep the Mac. I must say not having a spell checker when I right click is starting to piss me off.

 

[Sphexi]

Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
Clone your MAC address to the router.

They wouldn't be able to tell if you did this, unless they're looking at the traffic very closely. I wouldn't even worry about it, just toss a switch on there and go to town.

 

[Pepsi90919]

Originally posted by: ScottMac
Regarding hub versus switch:

While they operate differently internally, they are functional equivelants as far as connecting a group of network devices together.

Hubs act as repeaters (everything into one port end up going out the other ports, clock-for-clock, pulse for pulse. Only one device at a time can talk through a hub.

Switches will pass unicast traffic from a source port to a destination port and allow several virtual circuits to occur concurrently (an apparent multiplication of bandwidth). i.e., PC a and B can be talking the same time C and D can be talking, while E talks to the printer.

But, again, for the sake of this discussion, hubs and switches are functional equivelants.

FWIW

Scott

scott i think your knowledge, although absolutely correct, is pretty useless in this thread because of the intelligence level i'm sensing here.

 

[fishmonger12]

i have a similiar problem with a wireless router, cept i'm not connecting to the internet with it, only playing games with friends. talked to one of my friends and he said there was a way to keep others from seeing it, something about not broadcasting the ssid, can anyone elaborate?

 

[slpaulson]

Just get a 2nd NIC in your main computer, get a crossover cable, plug them in, run the Internet Connection Sharing Wizard, and you're done.

 

[zerocool1]

Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
Clone your MAC address to the router.

yea, that's what my friends do here. The best bet is don't do anything stupid like fileshare or anything. You don't want to give them a reason to investigate suspicious traffic.

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
Clone your MAC address to the router.

bingo.

Or run your PC as a proxy server.

 

[vshah]

Originally posted by: KevinF

Originally posted by: UncleWai
I don't think they will know.
If you are paranoid, have one computer that turns on 24/7 as a server and crossover cable to give internet access to the other one?

That's the way it has to done at Pitt.

cool we are neighbors.


OP are you limited to only one machine? read the computer use policy. most likely, the answer to your question will be there.

i've had up to 6 machines running without any problem here. but diff schools have different policies i'm sure. If you're only allowed one machine, cloning your computers mac address to your router should do the trick. It will make the router look like your computer to network services.

are your computers assigned public ip addresses? (pingable from web). I am at my school, so maintaining a firewall is my responsibility.

-Vivan


edit: come to think of it, my school lets me run whatever i want on my machine (webserver, dns, mail server, game server) as long as i don't exceed bandwidth restrictions (10gb total upload + download averaged over 5 days, for each machine)