I had recommended separately on the attendees list that perhaps Chelliot and
his merry band of "supernerds" need to write an informational or BCP draft,
accompanied by a round of *NOG presentations to share the wealth, as
documentation in this area appears a bit sparse -- I've been to plenty of other
conferences where the wireless network melted down in the hotel, conference
itself or both. In response, Joel Jaeggli pointed to a NANOG presentation that
is so old that it's still talking about 802.11G (and A) as a future thing, and
the network in question was probably dealing with half or less of the devices
that a modern one must do (no wi-fi phones, tablets, etc). So while the
fundamentals of dealing with RF frequency overlap and power probably haven't
changed much, I think that perhaps we're due for an update on the experience of
managing and optimizing large-scale conference/hotel WiFi networks, especially
the part about the tools that you use that enable you to re-enginee!
r a network of that size on the fly (aside from "pure awesome" and "lack of
sleep", that is). :-)
Thanks,
Wes
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Raszuk [mailto:robert(_at_)raszuk(_dot_)net]
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 5:44 PM
To: George, Wes
Cc: IETF Discussion
Subject: Fwd: IETF attendees reengineer their hotel's Wi-Fi network
Hi Wes,
Could we perhaps add a section to your draft
(draft-george-travel-faq-05.txt) on how to fix wifi network in the hotel
you are staying ?
Pointer to set of open source wifi troubleshooting tools would be
welcome too ;)
Cheers,
R.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: IETF attendees reengineer their hotel's Wi-Fi network
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 17:28:26 -0400
From: Russ Housley <housley(_at_)vigilsec(_dot_)com>
To: IETF <ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org>
Disgusted IETF attendees reengineer their Paris hotel's Wi-Fi network
What happens when a bunch of IETF super nerds show up in Paris for a
major conference and discover their hotel's Wi-Fi network has imploded?
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