Meeting:2008/08/21

Meeting (to be) held on 2008/08/21 at 19:00 in Mary Campbell Room

Previous meeting: 31 July 2008 19:00:00 Next meeting: 28 August 2008 19:00:00

Minutes

SOWN Projects Group (SOWN-PG)

Progress on:

• 802.1x
  • Windows XP works fine with OpenSEA
  • Native support under Windows XP is troublesome
  • Windows Vista works with ECS but not ISS/Eduroam
  • Mac OS works fine
  • Linux works with XSupplicant
  • Attempting to configure LDAP as an authentication backend for
    • Don't want to be using plaintext passwords
    • Should be able to do all EAP types and all handshake methods

• Mobile IPv6
  • Have not yet found a working client or server.
  • Home Agent is receiving Binding Updates but is not routing based on this data.
  • Could be a firewall issue.

• Documentation
  • More documentation required, both for users and of a technical nature.
  • Developers namespace has been set up on the wiki for semi-sensitive information - only available to people with wiki accounts.

Other Issues

• WiMAX
  • Awaiting the sourcing of equipment. David Tarrant to investigate.
• Todo List
  • Some firewall ports need opening (OpenVPN 1194)
• Website/DNS
  • Tim has renewed the domain registration but there may be a delay in the propagation of this.
• Community Account Requests
  • There has also been a node request
    • This will be approved by David Newman
• Pub Chain
  • No, SOWN don't intend to start running their own pubs, but they do need to find a way to allow the pubs where we have deployed nodes to give out username/passwords!
• AOB
  • Surgery
  • Future of SOWN over next 12 months
    • Invest in amplifier kit?