The Hilton is linked to the Internet via a DS3 connection to Equinix's nearby IBX (Internet Business Exchange). Within the facility, Equinix has established multiple separate transit connections and several peers across Equinix's Exchange platform (the peering GigE switch) and over private cross connections. Included as a BGP upstream is Equinix Direct, where multiple additional transit and paid peering providers are also providing connectivity through the switch.
Bandwidth is being provided by a great number of partners through the IBX, such as Broadwing, SBC, Wilshire Connect, Telia, Mzima, nLayer, Hurricane Electric, Yipes, SBC, and many more.
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.nanog.merit.net.
Terminal Room
Equinix 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 Club room 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.
Ballroom
The main ballroom will have tables set up with ethernet ports for laptop
users, as well as wireless connectivity.
We hope to get wireless connectivity to the bar area(s), and to the Beer 'n Gear. Connectivity to the Beer 'n Gear is not guaranteed.
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 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 nanog-arin .
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
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 using MPEG-4 standard multicast stream at ~1Mb/s.
The MPEG-4 stream should be of similar visual quality to the 1Mb/s MPEG-1 stream! an Apple MacMini using QuickTime Broadcaster is being used to encode the broadcast. 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 source is:
MPEG-4 (ISMA MPEG-4 ~1Mb/s) 640 pixels by 480 pixels. The sdp file describing the multicast stream is at the following location:
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0510/nanog8.sdp
Copy this link and open it in your favorite player (QuickTime, VLC or MPlayer)
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.