Re: [Debconf-team] Network at Le Camp and a few questions to those who previously did the network at DebConf
Hi,
On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 11:56:33PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
> Axel Beckert <abe@deuxchevaux.org> writes:
> > 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.)
>
> This has been done by Philipp Kern at DC12. If it helps I can organize
> an IPv6 subnet to be announced by the ISP.
They can't provide IPv6. So I expect that wouldn't change anything.
> But I guess that the main problem is that they don't have any IPv6
> connectivity yet, so this won't help.
It sounded even worse than "no IPv6 connectivity" IIRC.
> > 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.
>
> This is most probably because their captive portal is *very* dumb. It
> does not do any monitoring of your traffic and just unconditionally
> cut's your connection after some amount of time (whether idle or not).
> I'm quite sure this will go away if the captive portal is removed.
Ok, thanks for that detail. I was actually not sure what exactly
kicked me out. At least once my connection lasted only a few minutes.
But I also didn't have to always re-click something on that portal but
just reconnect.
> > * Anyone has experience with connecting ethernet switches over
> > wireless?
>
> Nope. And I agree with Phil Hands that at least for the official
> Hacklabs we should really try to build the "backbone" on wired
> ethernet.
Yeah, his mail was very convincing. :-)
Kind regards, Axel (back home again)
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