BAM Weekly Working Group July 10th, 2023

Attendees

• Dave Dornlas
• Jim Moss
• Tim Wilkinson
• Mathison Ott
• John Swallow

Notes by

• Tim Wilkinson

Major Discussions Topics

• Black Mountain
  • Jim discussed the upgrades that happened at Black Mountain on Sunday.
  • Some discussion about the various numbers AREDN reports when trying to optimize a link
    • It's confusing
  • 60g link from Site 4 (Jim's) to Site 5 (Matthew's) setup for sharing his network
    • Details on quite what this means are somewhat fuzzy
• Hornet
  • Dave asked Mathison if he could upgrade the nodes there .. which Mathison did
• https v http
  • Trouble with getting a LiteBeam AC working
  • John eventually got it working using Windows 7
  • Speculation that this is related to modern browser insisting on using https when we need http
• San Bruno Mtn B4
  • Site is now up.
  • Manager had some issues with it, having forgotten he gave the okay back in November. Hopefully all will be well.
• Backbone
  • The backbone links are now a networking running OSPF
  • Backbone has access to the Internet, and the Internet can access the backbone
  • IPv6 and IPv4 are supported
  • Public IPv4 addresses are available
  • No 44net addresses yet
• Emeryville
  • Install delayed due to work on the roof of the building, but update expected this week
• Skyline College
  • Dave is working to get a node on Skyline college
  • This will hopefully lead to more nodes on Canada and others
  • Looking at non-penetrating mount, solar, and batteries
    • Mathison has info on doing this which he'll provide
• Pacificon
  • 3 talks and a round table sounds like a good format
    • Would be good to get Rob to give a talk this year
  • Tim will book a table by the end of the week
    • People are encourage to give feedback on good spots before this