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This type of problem “won’t affect an entire building at once,” said Davis, who is also a Crimson editor. Rather, he said, such outages are more comparable to a “rolling blackout.”
Kevin S. Davis ’98, director of residential computing for FAS, said such disruptions most commonly result when students incorrectly plug their own wireless routers or access points—which are prohibited by Harvard FAS Computer Services (HASCS) rules—into the network.
According to Davis, such devices are meant to provide wireless Internet access by connecting to a valid IP address. The devices can then provide access to nearby computers by distributing “fake” IP addresses, which are not valid on their own.
Computers connected to the FAS network must automatically obtain a new IP address every few hours. If a computer attempting to do this is near a device broadcasting erroneous IP addresses—in the same House, for example—one of these “fake?...
Davis said the staff of the FAS computer help desk is “very familiar with this problem.”