[Debconf-team] Network at Le Camp and a few questions to those who previously did the network at DebConf
Hi,
most of the network at Le Camp looks better than feared. (Well, they
actually built up that infrastructure because of us.)
We've got a very helpful and cooperative (and partially federal :-)
ISP and they can give us a globally routed /22 IPv4 IP range without
firewall or NAT. The connection to Le Camp is 100 MBit/s symmetric
over fibre. We can also lend additional (long) ethernet cables and
switches from the ISP at no additional cost for the time of the
conference.
I want that /22 for general access to the internet. We also plan a
separate (V)LAN for the video team.
So my questions to the video team:
* Does the video team network needs to be globally routed?
* How many IPs does the video team need?
The ISP though doesn't yet offer IPv6. So we'll need a tunnel. So my
questions to the team members who handled network at Debconfs before:
* How have IPv6 tunnels been handled before at DebConfs?
* Do we have "our own" tunnel and tunnel broker or at least a
preferred tunnel broker for that? (If not, I'd take SixXS.)
Some of the houses only have wireless connection though (via wireless
bridges / a mesh network), especially those which we have during
DebCamp. The WiFi is managed centrally by the ISP. But they'll switch
it from the current open network with captive portal (landing page) to
a WPA secured network with our own ESSID during DebConf.
A participant of the current event at Le Camp who recognized the
Debian swirl on my t-shirt :-) told me though that the WiFi is
partially quite flakey and you get disconnected often. Actually it
happened to me, too, several times while writing this mail over
SSH/Mosh. But I'm sitting also downstairs while the WiFi antennas in
the main building are upstairs.
We may also need some WiFi to ethernet bridges for one or two
hacklabs, i.e. devices whose upstream connection is wireless and which
provide ethernet connection to other devices. (The alterntive option
is to pull our own cables to these buildings. We do have the ok for
that by Mr. Pianaro, but I think they expect us to take care to not
build up any tripping hazards. ;-)
So another set of questions to the team members who handled network at
previous Debconfs:
* Who brought the WiFi access points in the past? Can those devices
(or others) be brought again, too, to extend the existing
WiFi infrastructure?
* Can they be configured to do just bridging?
* Anyone has experience with connecting ethernet switches over
wireless?
Regards, Axel, sitting in Bâtiment Principal (main building) at LeCamp
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