Meeting:2009/04/16

Meeting (to be) held on 2009/04/16 at 19:00 in Mary Campbell Room

Previous meeting: 2 April 2009 19:00:00 Next meeting: 23 April 2009 19:00:00

Minutes

• SOWN[at]HOME Nodes (daveruss)
  • Return of University road #250
    • Has been escalated to be dealt with by school.
  • New Deployment problems
    • Oxford Avenue (#261)
      • No Progess
    • Newton Road (#251)
      • No Progress
  • Deployment Stability
    • Node Default time - Leth has developed a script which sets the date to being valid for the current certificate or the 1st of Jan this year. Has a related setup node script ready to run. This can now be run over all nodes except #253 and #266. Morse to roll this out with Leth in tow.
    • OpenVPN
      • Unexpected termination - SjH is looking into this problem further, it looks like OpenVPN performs some of its task in a random order. One solution is to run OpenVPN in the foreground in a while loop which starts it again when it dies.
      • DNS Lookup loop - Is having a DNS problem and if OpenVPN starts before resolv.conf is re-written with open dns data is hangs in a loop. Put the IP address is the openVPN config is the solution, again Leth has done this and this can be rolled out (morse and Leth)
  • New requests
    • Unless you can keep it longer than the end of June, then we are not deploying over the summer will be the response.

• Admin tasks
  • PHP Code Cleanup
    • crwilliams been cleaning up sown-auth/stats code. Now with added rainbow colours :)
  • Wiki cleanup (crwilliams)
    • Still in progress. Andy claims to have fixed all the broken links he can. Colin is going to re-run the script again.
  • Yada Cleanup (SjH)
    • He will fix that! Whatever it is.
  • SVN permissions
    • Check in from dev
    • Touch a magic file (link on wiki) anyone with a sown committee account can touch this.
    • Main site will be updated in under 5 minutes
    • Remember to sync users between dev and ugforge

• SOWN Core Network Update (Davetaz)
  • Boundary between SOWN and ECS network is very vague.

• 802.11r (Jos)
  • The idea would be to drop them onto the same network such that they can talk to each other.

• WiMAX
  • Davetaz is working on the Plant kit to go atop of the building.
  • We need to identify sites to be part of the trial.

• Extending Meraki Coverage (Lionel)
  • It was discussed that we could have fun with a satellite dish and a tin can to see how well this works.
  • We need to look up if we can remove the limit in the new open source ath drivers.

• Ideas for Future Surgery
  • Node startup tests (varying levels of net connectivity)
  • Check node startup messsages via serial connection

Relegated to a Future Meeting

• Mobile IPv6 (SjH)

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

• SOWN VoIP (Inipairus)

• Link-Layer Filtering (morse)

• Location Tracking (AndrewWillmott)

• AOB