Meeting:2009/11/19

Meeting (to be) held on 2009/11/19 at 19:00 in Mary Campbell Room

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

Minutes

• SOWN[at]HOME Nodes
  • Halls' Bars' nodes (daveruss)
    • No progress.
    • Chamberlain node was down for just over a day, but came back up, and had not been restarted. Only the network connection had been an issue.
  • New node deployments (crwilliams)
    • No progress. This will be focused on in the new year.
  • Buying new nodes (Davetaz)
    • The OpenMesh nodes are not in stock. We have requested a quote for purchase and shipping from the US, but have not yet received this quote.
    • N-nodes (Tyler)
      • We are considering buying an Atheros based 802.11n card to fit in the mini PCI slot on the Alix board that has had OpenWRT installed.
        • eg. SparkLAN WMIA-207GN XSpaN (see eBay)
        • eg. SparkLAN WMIA-268N XSpaN a/b/g/n draft 2.0 - Available from http://oxfordtec.com
      • There is also the http://www.pcengines.ch/alix6b2.htm which has miniPCI Express (though note that the slot does NOT support WiFi cards).
      • We should also purchase some 802.11n compatible antennas.

• Node in Building 2A lecture theatre H (Tyler)
  • Stagesoc
    • Not officially cleared, but casual inquiries met no objections.
    • Lots of free network ports, but only one attached to a faceplate and known to be on a working vlan (stagesoc use this one occasionally). See [1]. There is also a working 4-way reachable in that rack.
    • Node could be mounted above door onto wood.
    • Preferred location is just near the speaker that is mounted close to the ceiling. Ideally to be powered by PoE.
    • We need to identify a working Meraki to be used as a campus tunnelled node, and will do a trial deployment, and then contact iSolutions to advise them of the setup.

• SOWN VoIP
  • Basic development setup is complete.
  • Davetaz is to get the machine registered with ECS.
  • Conference setup was discussed, and will be detailed further soon.

• Workshop feedback
  • Major improvements were made to the logging setup.

• Todo List
  • Secure LDAP - no luck on helios. Suggest we wait until ECS replaces helios.

• Updates on Projects

• AOB
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-range_Wi-Fi#Italy
  • We have found the WRAP board. It is in Davetaz's hands. It was formerly known as Faraday Node.