Meeting:2008/10/23

Meeting (to be) held on 2008/10/23 at 19:00 in Mary Campbell Room

Previous meeting: 16 October 2008 19:00:00 Next meeting: 30 October 2008 19:00:00

Minutes

SOWN Projects Group (SOWN-PG)

Progress on:

• 802.1x
  • New version of XSupplicant client has been tested by Sean this week

• WiMAX
  • We will have two base stations instead of one
    • This will allow us to test handoff
    • Each base station will be on different frequencies (2.5GHz/3.5GHz)
      • 2.5GHz license will last till June 2009 approx
      • 3.5GHz license will last until end of 2009
    • Need to find a second site
    • First deployment will be December time
  • Quad-band dongles for laptops should be available within the next month
    • We will try and do some adhoc stuff with these dongles
  • Still waiting on specs

• Mobile IPv6
  • SjH and Davetaz have been deploying the IPv6 firewall this week
    • Multicast and Mobility worked but Unicast didn't
    • They will be carrying out more work on Friday to get it working properly

Other Issues

• Planning for deployment of SOWN-Zepler
  • Must be before Thursday as James Fox and Peter Barton will be out the end of next week
  • Exact day will be determined by weather forecasts

• Amplifier
  • Should have arrived in stores but hasn't been received yet

• Saturday Surgery (25th October)
  • Will be test the power output required for 802.11a and 802.11a and 802.11b combined
  • Need to do other general test to make sure the node will work this time
  • Will be starting at 11am, meet outside north entrance.

• Certificates for sown-auth
  • No discussion required and no progress

• Settings for home nodes
  • Changing Wireless Channel
    • No progress
  • Traffic-shaping testing
    • No progress

• Progress on Todo list
  • Banning Users Implementation
    • SjH is working on this
  • Fix Portal http://http:// problem
    • Fixed
  • Information for Node Hosts page
    • No progress

• AOB
  • None