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RIPE 45 Network Connectivity

Remember to bring your wireless card to the RIPE Meeting!

Connectivity

The Fira Palace Hotel is connected with 4Mbps to CESCA's offices. CESCA is connected to RedIris, the spanish academic network.

Terminal Room

The conference site has a Terminal Room with 20 PCs, a printer, and a number of laptop drops. A patch cable to connect to an available switch is available at the registration desk. The room will also have 802.11b wireless connectivity.

The Terminal Room is in the Diamant Room and will be open at the following times:

Monday 12th 10.00 to 20.00

Tuesday 13th - Thursday 15th 08.00 to 20.00

Friday, 16th 08.00 to 14.00

Verdi Room / Plenary Room

The Verdi Room will be covered by wireless connectivity. The last row will have tables with ethernet ports and power for wireless laptop users. A patch cable is available at the registration desk.

Wireless Connectivity

All wireless addresses for the RIPE Meeting are in the 193.0.8.0/23 block.

Please read our note about wireless security.

The Fira Palace Hotel provides conditional wireless connectivity in all other rooms and public areas except the meeting area. To make sure you are not using the Fira Hotel Palace wireless connectivity, please configure this network name:


    Global Settings:
	IEEE Name/ESSID: ripemtg

The RIPE NCC will be providing a limited number of wireless cards to attendees during the RIPE Meeting. Cards will be available on a first-come, first-served basis at the registration desk and have to be returned at the end of the Meeting. There will be connectivity for people with:

802.11b Compliant, Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum 2.4 GHz (DS) cards
(11 Mb/s)

Checkout Procedure

We will take a credit card number to ensure timely return of your card :-) .
On Friday (or earlier if you wish), please return the cards to the registration desk . A receipt of return of your card will be issued. In the event that you lose or break the wireless card, your credit card will be charged EUR 250.

Wireless Specs

If you already own a wireless card, please feel free to bring it. If you are looking to buy a wireless card, you should probably get any brand of card that offers IEEE 802.11b compliancy. You'll probably want to get a card that uses Direct Sequence technology, as frequency hopping is not compatible with DS transmissions.

Drivers

Drivers can be downloaded from:

Squid Cache

Take advantage of the RIPE 45 Web cache! In addition to saving scarce bandwidth, caching reduces the load on the websites you are accessing, and gives you lower latency to overseas hosts.

Follow these steps to configure your browser to use the RIPE 45 Web cache.

Netscape users:
- Select Edit from the main menu bar
- Select Preferences....
- In the preferences window, click on the small triangle next to Advanced
- Select Proxies
- Select the Automatic proxy configuration option
- Enter the following host name: server.ripemtg.ripe.net
Explorer users:
- Select View on the main menu bar
- Select Internet Options at the bottom
- Select the Connection tab
- Select Configure... in the Automatic Configuration sub-window
- Enter the following host name: server.ripemtg.ripe.net

The RIPE 45 Web cache uses Squid, a freely available Web proxy cache.

Webcast

There will be a technical trial of webcasting (audio and video) of certain sessions of the RIPE meeting.

If you have problems with viewing the webcast from within the meeting network, please consult the on-site registration desk for assistance. Please note that we would prefer it if you do not view the webcast over the wavelan.

IPv6

All RIPE wireless and terrestrial ethernet ports will be IPv4/IPv6-ready. The RIPE Meeting site will have connectivity to the IPv6 network via a tunnel to the RIPE NCC office. Our provider is Surfnet. You will want to use IPv6 stateless address autoconfiguration (RFC 2462). We do not provide static IPv6 addresses. The address space we will use is 2001:610:241::/64.

IPv6 implementations for various laptop platforms are available from ipv6.org.

DHCP

We will again run Dynamic DNS updates.

Static addresses

If you need static addresses you will find RFC 2322 compliant clothpegs at the Terminal Room near the printer.