Meeting:2016/09/01

Meeting (to be) held on 2016/09/01 at 19:00 in Zepler CLS Lecture Room

Previous meeting: 18 August 2016 19:00:00 Next meeting: 15 September 2016 19:00:00

Agenda

• Projects
  • Node Firmware
    • Consider how to setup openwrt git repo and branches so it can easily be pushed/pulled on buildroot and buildroot-dev
    • Update SOWN node build to include IdenTrust CA root certificate and update calls to www.sown.org.uk to use this.
    • Update all nodes to use opkg repos hosted on a SOWN server.
    • Figure out why node305's /tmp/sown/ is not created
    • Investigate why syslog is so flaky on Chestnut Road (#302)
    • Consider how node's configuration can be tweaked to support wet bits of string
    • Improve security of our OpenWRT packages
    • Get node to detect modified config files
    • Consider reorganising node's crontab so jobs do not collide
    • Review maintain_sown_tunnel script to see why old openvpn processes hang about
    • MT300 node build
  • Sown Node Setup
    • Figure out how auth2.sown.org.uk should be register on SOWN and Soton DNS servers and configured in Apache
  • Virtual Machine Builds (See latest network topology
    • Sown-buildroot-dev
    • Sown-buildroot
    • Sown-auth2-dev
      • Still needs considerable effort to setup Kohana and get dev admin site running
    • Sown-monitor-new
      • Running on Icinga2
      • DavidNewman working on updating config generation script for Icinga2
  • VMS Build
    • Added ability to bridge VMs onto ECS DMZ.
  • SOWN(at)Anywhere
  • 802.11ac SOWN Zepler
    • Been in contact with Estates.
  • Eduroam Extender
  • SOWN(at)Coordinates

• SOWN intro talks
  • DavidNewman thinks these need to give only a very basic overview of SOWN and then have more in depth talks abou the Technologies of SOWN of SOWN before coming back to talk about SOWN in more detail.
  • We need to flesh out Technologies of SOWN and then build 3-4 presentations out of it. Suggested Titles:
    • Building distributed networks using OpenVPN (DavidNewman)
    • OpenWRT and package management for wireless devices (Cmalton)
    • A quick journey through RADIUS authentication (DavidNewman)
    • Administering the SOWN network (DavidNewman and Cmalton)
  • The last of the talks as well as explaining how the admin system works should bring together the aspects from the other presentations

• Node Requests
  • Deployed one with Jon Hare
  • Should follow up request made before the Summer (previously tol requester this is pending and they said they did not want node until new academic year).
  • Replace old generation nodes

• Contact Us Enquiries
  • Another query about Mesh networking.

• Icinga Alerts
  • AUTH2/NODE-SYSLOGS-SIZE

• Todo List

• AOB