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RIPE 49 Network Connectivity

Connectivity | Terminal Room | Plenary Room | Wireless | Cache | Webcast | IPv6 | DHCP | Static Addresses

Remember to bring your wireless card to the RIPE Meeting!

Connectivity

BT Net will sponsor the Renaissance Manchester Hotel connectivity. They provide a 100Mbps line.

The network will be up and running from Monday 20 September, 08:00 until Friday 24 September, 13:00.

We will have router filters in place, per RFC1918.

If you have any connection difficulties, do not hesitate to come to the Registration Desk.

Terminal Room

The conference site has a Terminal Room with 20 PCs, a printer and a number of laptop drops. You can get a patch cable to connect to an available switch at the Registration Desk. The room will also have 802.11b wireless connectivity.

The Terminal Room is in the Raphael-Vasari Suites and will be open at the following times:

  Open Supported
Monday - Thursday 08:30 - 20:00 09:00 - 18:00
Friday 09:00 - 13:00 09:00 - 13:00

 

 

 

Medici Ballroom / Plenary Room

The Medici Ballroom will be equipped with wireless connectivity. The table rows will be equipped with power drops for laptop users.

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 RIPE NCC will be providing a limited number of wireless cards for loan to attendees during the RIPE Meeting. Cards will be available on a first-come, first-served basis at the Registration Desk from Monday onwards.

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.

In the event that you lose or break the wireless card, your credit card will be charged EUR 250.

Wireless Specifications

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. We recommend a card that uses Direct Sequence (DS) technology, as frequency hopping is not compatible with DS transmissions.

Drivers

Drivers can be downloaded from:

Squid Cache

Take advantage of the RIPE Web cache! In addition to saving bandwidth, caching reduces the load on the Web sites you're accessing, and gives you lower latency to overseas hosts.

Follow these steps to configure your browser to use the 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: proxy.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: proxy.ripemtg.ripe.net

The RIPE 49 cache uses Squid, a freely available Web proxy cache.

Webcast

For detailed information on RIPE 49 Webcasting, please click here.

IPv6

All RIPE (wireless and wired) Ethernet ports will be IPv4/IPv6-ready. The RIPE Meeting site will have connectivity to the IPv6 network. Our IPv6 provider in Amsterdam is SURFnet. You should 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.


Please do not run router advertisments on the RIPE Meeting network.

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.