Ah, the winter (semester) break has almost ended, back to school on the 11th for me.
On a side note, I find it interesting that RPI has recently unfirewalled outbound ICMP echo-request packets solely for resnet (the rest of the network seems to be unchanged). I believe this has to do with the installation of a new Cisco PIX 500 series firewall on the 2nd of the month. Strangely, packet loss has dropped to less than 1% on resnet, while still remaining at approximately 6.5% for the rest of campus. I doubt this was intentional ... but you won't hear me complaining.