So the stooges who someone has laughingly dubbed our networks group decided that the thing to do was to shut off 802.11a. Laptops, said they, would use b/g instead, and the mobile devices (which we don't guarantee will be okay on our network) will stop bugging our DHCP server constantly.
Uh, what? The choice of link layer shouldn't make one bit of difference to DHCP; and if they think there are mobile devices that support 802.11a *only* (and would thus be left out in the cold), that'd be news to me.
That some college/university IT departments are, uh, sufficiently lacking in clue as to pull the stunts described above is, ahem, *not* news to me. (Not the current lot (either level of them), so much, but the ones before that.)
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Date: 2008-09-17 05:20 pm (UTC)Uh, what? The choice of link layer shouldn't make one bit of difference to DHCP; and if they think there are mobile devices that support 802.11a *only* (and would thus be left out in the cold), that'd be news to me.
That some college/university IT departments are, uh, sufficiently lacking in clue as to pull the stunts described above is, ahem, *not* news to me. (Not the current lot (either level of them), so much, but the ones before that.)