Meeting:2009/06/18

Meeting (to be) held on 2009/06/18 at 19:00 in Mary Campbell Room

Previous meeting: 11 June 2009 19:00:00 Next meeting: 25 June 2009 19:00:00

Minutes

• Unresolved power cut recovery issues
  • ECS not forwarding our eduroam traffic, is it possible to wire this up to nagios (action crwilliams).
  • Should we ask for a test account on ecs eduroam so we can test it is actually working? Should this be something ECS does and not us.

• SOWN Core Network Update (Davetaz and morse)
  • Sown-gw deployment will be happening at some point
  • L3 rack is being re-organised tomorrow (friday) with UPS being put in and SOWN servers moved.
  • Need to put scheduled maintaince messages
  • SUSU went down today, someone unplugged its network cable - buzzer.

• SOWN[at]HOME Nodes (daveruss)
  • Problematic Nodes: Oxford Avenue, Newton Road, Drummond Arms, Highfield Crescent
    • Oxford avenue has been returned (summer break).
    • Kitchener road has been returned (summer break).
    • Others seem to be down.
  • Problem with Archers Road: update_auth_bandwidth stuck [1]
    • Tunnel being slow, why doesn't wget time out? Needs further investigation.
  • Wifi driver fix (morse)
    • Has been roled out on a couple of nodes but no intel cards have yet connected.
  • Halls Bars nodes
    • No progress

• Admin Tasks
  • Login Monitoring (Leth)
    • We need graphs (action: crwilliams)

• Saturday Surgery other undertaken tasks review
  • Logout and Ban users is finished (node admins cannot ban users), they ask us.
    • Admin interface logout button logs you out either on a single node (if you are on that node) or all nodes if you logout from a non-sown ip.
    • Whole script needs to be backgrounded and paralled to avoid errors or we only allow people to logout on local node. (done: dct05r)
    • Needs to be implemented on portal.
  • SOWN-gw has all the custom kernels and does v4 nat, v4 firewall and layer7 filtering, however still needs a lot of work to add routing and v6 firewall.

• IPv6 Home Node issues
  • Morse is going to ask his ISP about the slow performance of v6 in a tunnel as he has the problem on his node.
  • We need a way to turn v6 off if the performance affects the node.

• Projects
  • WiMAX (morse)
  • 802.11r (Jos)
    • Morse to create a new campus node type "campus-layer2"
  • Mobile IPv6 (SjH)
  • SOWN single Eduroam cloud (SjH, Davetaz and morse)
  • SOWN VoIP telephone replacement (was SOWN VoIP and Extending Network Coverage) (Lionel)
  • Location Tracking (AndrewWillmott)
    • Andy has looked into how to populate the database with validity readings when on the move.

• AOB
  • daveruss to add Lional to committee mailing list.
  • Colin and Pauls guest accounts need checking.