Meeting:2009/02/12

Meeting (to be) held on 2009/02/12 at 19:00 in Mary Campbell Room

Previous meeting: 5 February 2009 19:00:00 Next meeting: 19 February 2009 19:00:00

Minutes

• Re-advertising SOWN[at]HOME node hosting (daveruss and SjH)
  • 12 requests approved, of these 4 have been handed out before the meeting.
  • morse has added a `show_all=1' option to the node approval system.

• NRPE to manage disk usage on /rw on campus nodes and /tmp on SOWN[at]HOME Nodes (Crwilliams)

• SOWN[at]HOME Nodes with poor uptime (daveruss):
  • University road (#250)
    • This needs to be followed up when Davetaz returns.
  • Tennyson road (#257) - Fixed by SjH
    • Fixed. ath0 config was somehow duplicated onto eth0.

• Admin Tasks
  • PHP code cleanup (Leth)
    • Stuart has been busy cleaning up the main login page. Will be deployed after dev8D.
  • Replacing cron jobs with ECS Webserver SVN
    • There are reasons we may wish to reconsider automatic portal deployments to auth. Discussed at length.
  • Comments on the New Setupnode scripts and Task List Queue
    • Stuart has re-jigged the script to have state, log errors and record sucess or failure.

• General Presentations about SOWN
  • daveruss has uploaded Paul's presentation from 07/08 Semester 2 introductory meetings and SjH's draft presentation from from the 08/09 Semester 1 introductory meetings at http://www.sown.org.uk/docpot/
  • There is a presentation from MIPv6 on one of the Dell laptops, on a corrupt windows partition. Need to investigate getting it off.

• WiMAX
  • No reply from Tim whether the message had been sent to Cisco. Will be chased up tomorrow and sent if not, by the end of the day (13/02/09).

• Mobile IPv6 (SjH)
  • Testing of IPv6 on SUSU
    • SUSU needs some more testing, potentially broken, both v4 and v6.
  • Home agent testing
    • A firewall is blocking traffic somewhere. Work in progress.

• 802.11r (Jos)
  • ath5k is reported to be working with the nodes in the newest version of OpenWRT.
  • Jos is taking a second node in order to actually test roaming between nodes (#254).

• SOWN VoIP (Inipairus)
  • Bekki was not at this weeks meeting.

• Location tracking (AndrewWillmott)
  • Andy is making a website! To allow users to add data. Work in Progress.

• SOWN-single Eduroam cloud (SjH and Davetaz and morse)
  • In discussion at length, again, will be attempted when time permits.

• Link-Layer Filtering (formerly Captive-DNS -> munging) (morse)
  • No progress. Morse has #270, needs adding to the database.

• AOB
  • Morse suggested lending WiMAX adapters to undergraduates via ECS Stores.
  • Andy can't decide between Food and boxes of Tech.

• Deferred Topics
  • Firewall issues to accessing SOWN servers (Davetaz)
  • SOWN Core Network Update (Davetaz)
  • Feedback from Dev8D? (morse and Davetaz)