NANOG 30 Network Information
Mail Relay | Terminal Room |
Main Room |
Wireless | Cache |
Multicast
RealNetworks
Streaming Media |
IPv6 | DHCP | DNS
Remember to bring your wireless
card to the meeting!
Network
Map
Connectivity
The Radisson hotel is linked to the Internet via a Stratum 20 Mb/s
microwave radio link and transit provided by Terremark. The IPv6 and
multicast feed is being provided by Florida International University.
Mail Relay
If you need a local mail relay, use smtp.nanog30.merit.net.
Terminal Room
Terremark has equipped the NANOG terminal room with 10 workstations, a
printer, outlets and ports for laptop users, and 802.11/802.11b wireless
connectivity.
The terminal room is in the Concerto D room near 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
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 avoiding cleartext passwords.
Merit is providing 50 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 nanog30 .
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
- Pick up your card at the wireless desk; it will be either in the
registration area (Sunday) or the back of the main ballroom (Monday and
Tuesday.)
- On Tuesday (or earlier if you wish), please
return the cards to the wireless desk in the ballroom (not to the
registration desk.) Your name will be checked off as having turned in
your card, and you're all set.
- You'll need to replace any lost or damaged cards; the replacement cost
is approximately $100.
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 available in your driver, you'll be best served by
setting:
Drivers are available on-site on CDs provided with some wireless cards,
and on the web:
For help installing your card, ask 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 NANOG30 cache uses Squid, a freely available Web
proxy
cache.
Multicast
The NANOG multicast broadcast is produced by Florida International
University and Merit Network.
For NANOG30's broadcast you'll need to download the web-based multicast
video-player at http://www.videoalive.com/MPEGplayer.
The tool will bring up a list of Multicast
announcements which the user can select. The NANOG conference is being multicast by
Internet2 as "NANOG30".
Feedback or questions about the multicast sessions can be
sent to nanog-support@nanog.org
NANOG 30 is also being broadcast with RealNetwork's RealServer 8.0. The
broadcast begins
Monday morning at 9:00 a.m. 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.
IPv6
All NANOG wireless and terrestrial ethernet ports will be IPv4/IPv6-ready.
The NANOG conference site will have native IPv6 connectivity via
Merit's link to Abilene/Internet2. 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.
DNS
The DNS server IP addresses for the meeting are:
- 192.35.164.31
- 192.35.164.32
