Meeting:2009/03/19

Meeting (to be) held on 2009/03/19 at 19:00 in Mary Campbell Room

Previous meeting: 12 March 2009 19:00:00 Next meeting: 26 March 2009 19:00:00

Agenda

• SOWN[at]HOME Nodes (daveruss)
  • Return of University road #250
  • Reconfiguration of #263 (previously deployed at Shakespeare Ave North)
  • New Deployment problems

• Admin tasks
  • mysql-replication problem on Sown-vpn
  • PHP Code Cleanup
    • URL redirect problem on login page (SjH)
    • IRC logs code cleanup (Leth)
  • Wiki cleanup (crwilliams)

• SOWN Core Network Update
  • New Ford (morse)

• Extending Meraki Coverage (Lionel)

• WiMAX

• Mobile IPv6 (SjH)
  • Testing of IPv6 on SUSU

• 802.11r (Jos)

• SOWN VoIP (Inipairus)

• Location Tracking (AndrewWillmott)

• SOWN-single Eduroam cloud (SjH and Davetaz and morse)

• Link-Layer Filtering (formerly Captive-DNS -> munging) (morse)

• Documentation
  • General Presentation for SOWN
  • Recovering presentations from Dell laptop with corrupt Windows partition (SjH)

• AOB
  • offline backups removed from nagios - the new mechanism is intrinsically safer

Minutes

• The matter with University road #250 has been escalated.
• #263 has been reconfigured
• New deployment problems are referred to (SjH), who was absent for this meeting.

Admin tasks

• PHP code cleanup - no progress
• Mysql replication - it may be the wiki stats may be being updated from sown_data@sown-vpn
• (morse) believes the URL redirect problem is fixed. (SjH) to confirm.
• irc logs - (Leth) is moving the code away from timestamps, which have `skew' issues.
• Website:
  • Wiki cleanup - A large number of broken links have been fixed,
  • Links owned by (AndrewWillmott) need further attention,
  • There are issues with MediaWiki re-urling links which are marked as being strings by a Semantic template. (crwilliams)
  • We will add an XHTML icon at some point, this will be removed from the site when nagios detects an invalid page. (crwilliams)
  • The location for `breadcrumbs' was discussed. (crwilliams)
  • The contents of the `resources' directory of the website needs a cleanup. (crwilliams)
  • The semantic data for servers will be changed to have human readable text, instead of a table. ( crwilliams)

• SOWN Core Network Update
  • new-ford: (morse) has spent more time on this. new-ford is contributing to our multicast issues, and will be used to help debug our multicast issues.

• Extending Meraki Coverage (Lionel)
  • This is likely to be progressed in a surgery. We have directional antennas to use for this.

• WiMAX
  • There are current issues with the location for the potential trial.

• Mobile IPv6 (SjH)
  • (SjH) was absent for this meeting.

• 802.11r (Jos)
  • (Jos) was absent for this meeting.

• SOWN VoIP (Inipairus)
  • (Inipairus) was absent for this meeting.

• Location Tracking (AndrewWillmott)
  • (AndrewWillmott) was absent for this meeting.

• SOWN-single Eduroam cloud (SjH and Davetaz and morse)
  • This point was discussed, along with its reasons for being - more investigation required!
  • Stats: 6 users have used ssid:`eduroam', and 5 have used ssid:`[SOWN]-8021X'

• Link-Layer Filtering (formerly Captive-DNS -> munging) (morse)
  • IN/OUT Ebtables hooks have been added, but these are as yet untested.

• Documentation
  • General Presentation - No progress
  • sown-bot has been documented on the wiki - (Leth)
  • Recovering presentations - (SjH) was absent

• Backups
  • Offline backups checks have been removed from 6core/nagios monitoring.
  • Offline backups on Helios will be kept for a further 6months until backup3 has a worthy quantity.