NANOG26 Network Information

Mail Relay | Terminal Room | Main Room | Wireless | Cache | Multicast | RealNetworks Streaming Media | IDS| IPv6 | DHCP


Remember to bring your wireless card to the meeting!

Network Map
Wireless AP Map

The Eugene Hilton is linked to the Internet via an OC3 ATM backbone connection provided by Sprintlink, with Internet2 connectivity provided by the University of Oregon at the Oregon GigaPoP.

Mail Relay

If you need a local mail relay, use srv34.nanog26.merit.net.

Terminal Room

 The University of Oregon has equipped the NANOG terminal room with 15 workstations, 2 printers, outlets and ports for laptop users, and 802.11/802.11b wireless connectivity.

The terminal room is in the Seeger/Joplin rooms across from the Ballroom, and will be open from Sunday afternoon to the end of the meeting, with 24-hour access. You will need your NANOG badge to enter.

The account on the Unix workstations is: 

  login: nanog
  password: nanog
Printers

lpd service is available on srv34 with two queue names, laser and color inkjet. The driver to use is postscript level1 or 2.

smb (Windows)-based print service is available via samba type \\192.35.164.34 from a Windows box. Log in with no username or password (guest). The queues are named laser and color-inkjet, and should work with any generic postscript printer driver, e.g., apple laser-writer IINT.

Main Room

The main ballroom will have tables set up with ethernet ports for laptop users, as well as wireless connectivity. We're also hoping to get wireless connectivity to the bar area(s), and to the Beer-n-Gear. Connectivity to the Beer-n-Gear is not guaranteed.

Wireless Connectivity

 Please read our note about cleartext passwords.

Merit is providing 200 wireless cards for loan to attendees during the meeting. Cards will be available in registration area on Sunday afternoon, and in the main ballroom on Monday and Tuesday.

SSID

The wireless network SSID is NANOG26 .

Supported Cards

The network supports 802.11/802.11b-compliant, Direct Sequence, spread 2.4 GHz (DS) cards (2 Mb/s and 11 Mb/s).

Addressing

All wireless addresses for the meeting are in the 192.35.164.0/22 block.

Checking Out a Card

If you already own a wireless card, please feel free to bring it. If you are thinking about buying a wireless card, you should probably get any brand of card that offers IEEE 802.11 compliancy. You'll probably want to get a card that uses Direct Sequence technology, as frequency hopping has a lower maximum theoretical bandwidth (2Mb/s).

Drivers

If the following options are availabile in your driver, you'll be best served by setting:
  • Access point density high
  • Power saving off
  • Infrastructure/bss mode only
    • Drivers are available on-site on CDs provided with some wireless cards, and on the web: For help installing your card, see the engineers at the wireless desk or check with the Merit staff.

    Squid Cache

    Take advantage of the NANOG Web cache! Traffic analyses from recent meetings show that on average, it's approximately twice as fast to load a page from the cache than from the origin server directly. In addition to saving bandwidth, caching reduces the load on the Web sites you're accessing, and gives you lower latency to overseas hosts.

    Follow these steps to configure your browser to use the cache. The NANOG24 cache uses Squid, a freely available Web proxy cache.

    Multicast


    The NANOG multicast broadcast is produced by the University of Oregon, with help from Cisco and Sprint.

    To pick up multicast client software see:

    http://videolab.uoregon.edu/download.html
    You can test your multicast connectivity here:

    http://www.on-the-i.com/mt/index.html
    Broadcast Types

    Session Names

    In SDR and iptvhost.uoregon.edu the session names will be:

    NANOG 26 (H.261)
    NANOG 26 (MPEG1)
    NANOG 26 (MPEG4)
    If you're not using SDR, the session information will be:

    H.261
    video - 224.2.246.93:52720
    audio - 224.2.129.33:27324

    MPEG1
    video - 224.2.242.11:52798
    audio - 224.2.184.125:30776

    MPEG4
    video - 224.2.133.187:60294
    audio - 224.2.229.231:29482
    Feedback or questions about the multicast sessions can be sent to multicast@lists.uoregon.edu

    RealNetworks Streaming Media

    NANOG 26 is also being broadcast with RealNetwork's RealServer 8.0. To view the live or archived feeds, you can use RealPlayer 5.0 and above. To watch the meeting live, check the links on the main conference page. If you have questions about the Real Media broadcast, check with the Merit staff or send e-mail to nanog-support@nanog.org.

    IDS

    On behalf of NANOG the University of Oregon will use the Bro network intrusion detection system during the NANOG/ARIN meetings in Eugene to gain experience in the use of such systems and to provide a more secure network environment. No personally identifiable information including IP addresses, domain names, or other identifiers gathered in the course of operating the NANOG/ARIN meetings network will be shared with third parties unless such disclosure is required by law. All copies of personally identifiable information gathered will be destroyed no later than five days after the end of the meetings.

    For more information about Bro, see:

    http://www.icir.org/vern/bro-info.html

    IPv6

    All NANOG wireless and terrestrial ethernet ports will be IPv4/IPv6-ready. The NANOG conference site will have connectivity to the 6Bone via a tunnel back to Merit's location in Ann Arbor. You'll want to use IPv6 stateless address autoconfiguration (    RFC2462). We do not provide static IPv6 addresses.

    IPv6 implementations for various laptop platforms are available from ipv6.org. If you have questions about v6 connectivity, please check with a Merit/NANOG staff member or send email to nanog-support@nanog.org.

    DHCP

    These graphs show     information from the NANOG DHCP server. The first graph shows the number of IP addresses assigned and the number of MAC addresses making DHCP requests. The second graph shows the rate at which addresses are assigned.