Meeting:2011/09/08

Meeting (to be) held on 2011/09/08 at 19:00 in Access Grid Room

Previous meeting: 1 September 2011 19:00:00 Next meeting: 15 September 2011 19:00:00

Minutes

• Amateur Radio
  • RSGB affiliation (phil/daveruss)
    • Application sent off on Wednesday (07/09/2011)
  • Freshers Week 2011 (phil)
    • There is probably no added benefit of having a stall at RAGfest

• Promotion (daveruss)
  • Flyers - http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/drn/stuff/suwsflyer2011.pdf
    • Discussed whether it is worth doing a run of 200 rather than 500 and not put flyers in Jumpstart packs. daveruss will investigate the price different
    • Need to see whether we can find external funds to pay for flyers.
  • Jumpstart Presentation - http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/drn/stuff/suws_jumpstart_presentation_1112_v3.pptx
    • This still needs to finish. Need to simplify 'get involved' information to web address and info at introductory meetings.
  • Still need to design SUWS posters

• Nodes (daveruss)
  • Adelaide Road
    • No progress
  • Steep Close
    • No progress - daveruss will try to get hold of the node host about this.
  • Winchester
    • daveruss will try to contact the VP Sites or someone in the Winchester office on Friday (09/09/2011)

• Admin Tasks
  • Move SOWN and trunk ports to the Access Grid room (Davetaz)
    • No progress
  • Code review of new login functions (daveruss)
    • A couple of modifications
    • Send mac address as part of the eapol_test call. The correct MAC still needs to be passed through to the eapol_login function.
    • The config file for the eapol login is now chmoded to 600 to limit access.

• Intern work (James147 and Davetaz)
  • Eduroam campus-wide (mike)
    • Radius servers will be switch over for external access on Friday (09/09/2011)
    • iSolutions Eduroam wireless controller will go live next week with 20+ APs on it.
    • Davetaz and daveruss have updated most of the remaining infrastructure required to start deploying new thin client access points with ECS-WLAN and eduroam in ECS over the next couple of weeks.
  • Eduroam compliance

• SOWN Projects
  • OpenWRT backfire packages (Leth)
    • No progess - This is the main focus of this weekend's workshop
  • Rebuilding VPN (Davetaz)

• Icinga Alerts
  • SOTONRADIUSDEV
    • Radius restarted
  • BACKUP3 DISK /home/
    • Fixed by Davetaz by removing old logs etc. from 2009.
  • GW DISK /
    • Requests from a ssh password digger at MIT have been blocked. When logrotate runs again the gzipping of /var/log/messages should hopefully reduce the log file size.
    • Need to figure out why many messages are being logged 82 times rather than just once, as this will dramatically reduce the size of unzipped /var/log/messages

• To Do List
  • rad.php functionality moved to eapol.php to use new mechanism of login has now gone live.

• AOB
  • Automatic community account creation from SOWN IPs (daveruss)
    • Some informal discussion was had about this at the Crown.