Haha this is literally how we used to deal with this at CampZone, a huge LAN party, back in the mid-2000s.
At later editions they just enabled DHCP on the network, I think they didn’t at first because they wanted to be independent of DHCP servers. Early editions even had a negligible internet uplink (after all, it was a LAN party). Though later ones had faster uplinks than the thousands of participants could fill.
Yeah it has. The demo aspect became smaller and smaller and with the advent of internet penetration even the copy side of it dissipated. It wasn’t the same at the end tbh
Still, fond memories of coding, sleeping under the tables, eating junk.
Talking about Lan uplinks, in the early 2010’s I had the joy of working with a 20gb uplink at a small university LAN (the sysadmin got a good amount of free pizza and beers for that one). I spent a large amount of my savings on a 10gb NIC only to find out my hard drive couldn’t keep up lol.
I remember in 1993 my uni had no uplink. It was UUCP only (so just polled mail). In 1994 we got an uplink which was 256kbit shared between all sites. Luckily it came in to our facility first (the IT/Tech branch) and was cascaded further so we basically used it all 😜
Haha this is literally how we used to deal with this at CampZone, a huge LAN party, back in the mid-2000s.
At later editions they just enabled DHCP on the network, I think they didn’t at first because they wanted to be independent of DHCP servers. Early editions even had a negligible internet uplink (after all, it was a LAN party). Though later ones had faster uplinks than the thousands of participants could fill.
Same as The Party in Aars, Denmark, in the 90s. Every table had a sheet. Cross out the IP you picked. Managed 2000 attendees that way.
Oh yeah The Party was another big one. Probably gone by now too?
Yeah it has. The demo aspect became smaller and smaller and with the advent of internet penetration even the copy side of it dissipated. It wasn’t the same at the end tbh
Still, fond memories of coding, sleeping under the tables, eating junk.
Talking about Lan uplinks, in the early 2010’s I had the joy of working with a 20gb uplink at a small university LAN (the sysadmin got a good amount of free pizza and beers for that one). I spent a large amount of my savings on a 10gb NIC only to find out my hard drive couldn’t keep up lol.
Wow…
I remember in 1993 my uni had no uplink. It was UUCP only (so just polled mail). In 1994 we got an uplink which was 256kbit shared between all sites. Luckily it came in to our facility first (the IT/Tech branch) and was cascaded further so we basically used it all 😜