The Weston is linked to the Internet by a 50M fast Ethernet connection provided by Yipes Communications and multicast connectivity provided by Swift Communications and the University of Oregon. IPv6 traffic will be tunneled back to Merit and out to the Internet via Abilene.
Network Authentication
Merit's wireless authentication system helps us isolate problems on the
wireless net.
To access the wireless network, launch your browser. You'll be redirected to a gateway server and prompted for your email address. Once registration begins at noon on Sunday, you must enter the email address you used to register for the meeting. If you're not sure what address was used for registration, check with the staff at the wireless desk or the registration desk.
Once you enter your email address, the gateway server will record your assigned DHCP address and MAC address. Your HTTP session will then be redirected to the URL you originally entered in your browser.
Mail Relay
If you need a local mail relay, use smtp.nanog34.merit.net.
Terminal Room
Switch and Data has equipped the NANOG terminal room with 15
workstations, a
printer, outlets and ports for laptop users, and 802.11/802.11b wireless
connectivity.
The terminal room is in the Grand Crescent room on the Grand level of the hotel, 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 Windows XP workstations is:
login: nanog password: nanog
Authentication
Merit's wireless authentication system makes it easier for us to isolate
any problems with the wireless net.
To access the wireless network, launch your browser. You'll be redirected to a gateway server and prompted for your email address. Once registration begins at noon on Sunday, you must enter the email address you used to register for the meeting. If you're not sure what address was used for registration, check with the staff at the wireless desk.
Once you enter your email address, the gateway server will record your assigned DHCP address and MAC address. Your HTTP session will then be redirected to the URL you originally entered in your browser.
Card Loans
Merit is providing 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 nanog34 .
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 in the
Terminal Room (Grand Crescent.) You must return the card to the wireless
desk in the Terminal Room following the meeting. Your name will then be
checked off as having turned in your card, and you're all set. If you
lose or damage the card, you will need to pay for it. (The cost is
approximately $90.)
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
Follow these steps to configure your browser to use the cache. The NANOG cache uses Squid, a freely available Web proxy cache.
NANOG will be multicast live using an ISMA MPEG-4 standard multicast stream using the AAC audio codec at 250Kb/s. The stream should be of similar visual quality to the 1Mb/s MPEG-1 stream! Recommended free clients are Quicktime for Windows or Macintosh and MPlayer on Linux or *BSD. The VideoLAN client is able to play back the video on all platforms but the AAC audio properly on only a few of them.
The multicast sources are:
MPEG-4 (ISMA MPEG-4 250kb/s)
Please send feedback or questions about the multicast session to nanog-support@nanog.org
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.