Meeting:2011/11/03

Meeting (to be) held on 2011/11/03 at 19:00 in Zepler CLS Lecture Room

Previous meeting: 27 October 2011 19:15:00 Next meeting: 17 November 2011 19:00:00

See SUWS meeting page for joint agenda.

Minutes

• Nodes (HeliosFA and daveruss)
  • Outstanding replacement power supplies
    • No progress, probably at least a month's wait
  • New and accepted node requests delayed to October
    • Two now ready for deployment

• Workshop review
  • Updating nodes will out of date old firmware (HeliosFA and daveruss)
    • Two nodes have been upgraded with the old firmware and tested.
    • Some problems with slow connections/very limited bandwidth on one of the other upgraded nodes
  • OpenWRT backfire packages (crwilliams)
    • No significant progress. Difficultly getting logged in to the Alix board
  • N-node building (crwilliams)
    • No progress
  • Auth2 installation (crwilliams)
    • Some packages installed and partial configured
    • Problem with default route and accessing the machine after reboot
    • Bios change was required to get kvm-qemu working
  • New node admin system (daveruss)
    • No progress
  • Antenna-spacing investigation (HeliosFA)
    • No progress

• SOWN Projects
  • WiFi in Halls (daveruss)
    • Dependent on node and package building
  • orchard's third year project
    • No significant progress
    • Need to know more about SOWN Radmatrix
    • Setting up VM for implementation of this project
  • Eduroam Crowd-sourcing GDP
    • Not present
  • Wireless Survey (UG coursework)
    • No one interested present

• To Do List
  • No specific tasks discussed

• Icinga Alerts
  • AUTH EAPOL-SOWN
    • Davetaz broke it
  • Building 32, Level 3 North Server Room TEMP-AMB
    • Seems to happen less mornings in the last week or so. Probably a sampling or load issues on the recording server.

• AOB
  • nat.sown.org.uk DNS inconsistency (daveruss)
    • morse will email AndyLandy to re-register sown-nat as an A record for new sown-nat that used to be rizzo.
    • Longer time solution would be to authorative for sown.org.uk rather than letting ECS manage it.