[IETF-63] Network Document

["HIDEGA TIKU Lea RD-TCH-ISS" <hidega.tiku at francetelecom.com>]

ETF 63 - PARIS 2005
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Terminal Room:
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The Terminal Room is located in the "Palais des congrès" level 3 - Hall Bordeaux and is not open 24 hours due to facility requirements.  The hours of operation are:  

Sunday hours:
2:00pm - 10:00pm
Help desk: Technical support 4:00pm - 8:00pm 

Monday-Thursday hours:
8:00am - 10:00pm
Help desk: Technical support 8:00am - 8:00pm 

Friday hours:
8:00am - 12:00 noon
Help desk: Technical support 8:00am - 12:00noon


The room itself consists of approximately 150 seats providing wired 10/100 Ethernet access and 220v European power ports. There are also two printers available. They are located at the Help Desk of the far left row of tables as you enter the Terminal Room (near the elevators). 

When using the Ethernet connections in the Terminal Room, IPv4 addressing is provided via DHCP. Please use Dynamic Autoconfiguration for IPv6. Unlike the wireless networks,  IP multicast is enabled for this network.

Network Basics:
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The IETF 63 network connects to the Internet via two separate STM1 (155 Megabits) links (one is used as backup)  provided by France Telecom. The entire event is addressed  out of the 86.255.0.0/19 block for IPv4 and 2001:0688:FFFF::/48 for IPv6. IPv4 multicast and IPv6 are natively provided by France Telecom Opentransit.

Wireless:
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An 802.11 wireless network is being provided by France Telecom liberally in the Palais des Congrès (Level 3), Meridien and Concorde hotel (lobbies). Due to hardware availability, 802.11 b/g is available everywhere, and 802.11a is only in the Palais des Congrès. The areas being specifically covered are the meeting rooms and hallways in the conference area (level 3), Grand Amphitheatre (plenary), and the lobbies and bar area of the Meridien and  Concorde hotels. 

There are three wireless networks available:
 
1. An open network with a beaconed SSID of "ietf63", 

2. A wep enabled network with a beaconed SSID of "ietf63-wep" and a wep key of "wepisinsecure" (Hex: 7765706973696e736563757265), and

3. An 802.1x enabled network with a beaconed SSID of "ietf63-1x", associations of WPA or TKIP, authentication of PEAP/MSCHAPv2, a username of "user63", and a password of  "ietf63". Do or do not verify server certificate (provided by France Telecom). 

The proper operation of the wireless network requires the assistance of all users. One of the most significant issues with wireless performance in past IETF meetings has  been wireless clients automatically, or accidentally initiating "ad-hoc" networks that act as the official IETF wireless network, causing other users to associate with  false IETF wireless networks. Therefore, please disable your client's ability to create an ad-hoc network and as well as the ability to automatically join an ad-hoc  network. If you are using Windows XP or Mac OS X 10.3 to manage your wireless client, the instructions to disable creation of ad-hoc networks are listed below. If you are  using other systems, please do what ever your particular wireless client management system requires to turn off ad-hoc networks.

For Mac OS X :
Open System Preferences > Network > Airport and un-check the box for "Allow this computer to create networks". 

For Windows XP
Select Wireless Connection > Properties
Select Wireless networks > Advanced
click on "Access point (infrastructure) networks only" and unselect "automatically connect to non-preferred networks".


Additional instructions to use the 802.1x SSID with Windows XP :
select wireless connection > Properties
Select Wireless networks > properties of "ietf63-1x"
Use the following parameters :
	Association : WPA and TKIP
	Authentication : Enable IEEE 802.1x and PEAP as EAP type. Unselect the two options "Authenticate as computer..." and Authenticate as guest...". Click on properties.
		Select (or not) : Validate server certificate.
		Select Authentication Method : Secured password (EAP-MSCHAPv2). Then click on configure and unselect "Automatically use my Windows logon name and password"


Printing:
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Printing services are available in the Terminal Room during all hours of operation. There are two printers, both HP LaserJet 2420n. These print on standard A4 paper and,  unfortunately, are not duplex. The printers served by three print queues via CUPS, PrinterA, PrinterB, and a combined queue named Terminal_Room_Printers. Please use the  combined queue whenever possible. The queues can be accessed via LPD, IPP and Windows Print Services (Samba).

Via LPD:
     Hostname: lpd.ietf63.ietf.org
     Queue Names: PrinterA, PrinterB, Terminal_Room_Printers

Via IPP:
     URI for PrinterA:  ipp://ipp.ietf63.ietf.org:631/printers/PrinterA
                                     http://ipp.ietf63.ietf.org:631/printers/PrinterA
     URI for PrinterB:  ipp://ipp.ietf63.ietf.org:631/printers/PrinterB
                                     http://ipp.ietf63.ietf.org:631/printers/PrinterB
     URI for the combined queue:
                                     ipp://ipp.ietf63.ietf.org:631/classes/Terminal_Room_Printers
                                     http://ipp.ietf63.ietf.org:631/classes/Terminal_Room_Printers

     Also, the CUPS server has a presence on every IETF network, and thus IPP browsing should work

Via SMB:
     \\smb.ietf63.ietf.org\PrinterA
     \\smb.ietf63.ietf.org\PrinterB
     \\smb.ietf63.ietf.org\Terminal_Room_Printers

     Similarly to CUPS, the Samba Server is on all IETF networks, and should be browseable via workgroup "IETF63" and server "Pollux".

For MacOS X (10.4 "Tiger"):
     - Open "Print & Fax" within System Preferences
     - Select "A4" as "Default Paper Size in Page Setup"
     - Click on the "+" under the printer list to add a new printer
     - When the Printer Browser window pops up, click on "Default Browser" in the upper left hand corner
     - Select the "IETF63 Terminal Room Printers" line and click "Add"

For Windows XP:
     - Open printer settings
     - Choose 'Add a printer' , then 'Next'
     - Change setting from 'Local' to 'Network' printer and choose 'Next'
     - Change the option from 'browse' to 'Connect to this printer'
     - In the 'Name' field type :   \\smb.ietf63.ietf.org\Terminal_Room_Printers  and then choose 'Next'
     - Next an Add Printer Wizard dialogue box will appear, you need to select two things:
             1) In the left window (Manufacturer) select 'HP'.
             2) In the right hand window (Printers), scroll down and select 'HP LaserJet 2420 Series PS', then hit 'Ok'
                 (Note: If you don't have the exact driver, any modern HP Postscript driver should work)




Other services
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     In addition to printing, several other services are provided on the network:

     DNS & DHCPv4:
         All of the IETF networks provide dynamic IPv4 addressing via DHCP using two redundant onsite servers. Similarly, we have two onsite name servers supporting the  ietf63.ietf.org domain and providing recursive name resolution. There is also one backup offsite DNS server. These servers are:
         ns0.ietf63.ietf.org: 86.255.2.2 or 2001:688:ffff:2::2 (DNS & DHCP - Onsite)
         ns1.ietf63.ietf.org: 193.251.151.59 (DNS - Offsite)
         ns2.ietf63.ietf.org: 86.255.2.3 or 2001:688:ffff:2::3 (DNS & DHCP - Onsite)

     IPv6 and DHCPv6:
         All IETF networks are IPv6 enabled. Please utilize Dynamic Autoconfiguration to build your global addresses. Nameserver address for IPv6 are being provided via  DHCPv6.

     NTP:
         A Stratum 2 NTP Time server is available at ntp.ietf63.ietf.org.

     SMTP:
         An outbound email (SMTP) relay server is available at smtp.ietf63.ietf.org. This will openly relay mail from within the IETF networks.

     RFCs:
         A complete set of RFCs is available via anonymous FTP at ftp.ietf63.ietf.org and via Windows Filesharing (SMB) at \\smb.ietf63.ietf.org\RFCs

     IETF Webserver:
         A complete copy of the main IETF webserver is located onsite. If you resolve www.ietf.org using the local nameservers, it will point you at the local copy.



Network Problems
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General help is available at the help desk as noted above. If you have any network issues, please do not hesitate to contact us. You may do this by sending email to the noc  team at ietf-63 at ietf.org or stopping by the help desk. Remember, it is difficult to address issues that we do not know about.


Thanks
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The terminal room and IETF network are made possible by the generous contributions by France Telecom and by the tireless efforts of our international volunteer team. If you  see any of these people in the halls, please be sure to thank them for all their work!


Hosting:
France Telecom

Contributors:					
Cisco Systems			
Juniper Networks
RENATER		

France Telecom Staff:
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Hidega Lea Tiku
François Mercier
Sergio Beker
François Bourdais
Jean-Pierre Letournel
Rafael Rizo
Jerome Leguyader
Xavier Guerin
Guillaume Leclanche
Franck Veysset
Jerome Razniewski
Marc Lecharpentier
Bruno Fillinger
Francois Humbert
Pierre-Antoine Antonini
Malika Djabali
Ines Feki
Marc Henry
Christian Jacquenet
Laurent Le Poullennec


Volunteers:
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Karen O'Donoghue
Jim Martin
Bill Jensen
Chris Elliott
Ben Harris
Joel Jaeggli
Lucy Lynch
Scott Bloomquist

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