RIPE 51 - Connectivity Information

Remember to bring your wireless card to the RIPE Meeting!

Connectivity

Global Voice Networks is providing the connectivity for the RIPE 51 Meeting. They are supplying a 100Mbps line. We will make the network available from Monday, 10 October at 08:00 until Friday, 14 October at 13:00. We will have router filters in place. These will conform to RFC1918.

If you have any connection difficulties, please go to the Registration Desk.

Terminal Room

Plenary Room

We will provide wireless connectivity in the Plenary Room. There will be power connections on tables in the room if you want to plug in a laptop.

Wireless Connectivity

RIPE NCC will provide wireless network coverage in the meeting area. The network will provide connectivity for people with IEEE 802.11b or IEEE 802.11g compatible wireless cards.

The wireless network will be "open", there will not be any authentication and encryption in the network layer.

Please read our note about wireless security.

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

We will have a limited number of IEEE 802.11b compatible wireless cards for loan to attendees during the RIPE Meeting. These will be available on a first-come, first-served basis at the Registration Desk from Monday onwards.

Checkout Procedure

• We will take a credit card number from you to ensure return of the card.
• Please return the wireless cards to the Registration Desk by Friday at 13:00 at the latest.
• If you lose or break the wireless card, we will charge EUR 50 to your credit card.

If you lose or break the wireless card, we will charge EUR 50 to your credit card .

Wireless Specifications

You can bring your own wireless card. If you plan to buy a wireless card, you should look for a 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

You can download drivers from:

• Avaya for windows and linux
• Aironet
• Lucent WaveLAN
• Cabletron
• Various types of UNIX:
  http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/WirelessLinks#line84
  http://www.live.com/wireless/unix-base-station.html
  http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/

Squid Cache

The RIPE Web cache will save bandwidth, reduce the load on the Web sites you access and give you lower latency to overseas hosts.

Follow these steps to configure your browser to use the cache:
Netscape/Mozilla 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 URL option
• Enter the following URL: http://rosie.ripe.net/proxy.pac

FireFox users:

• Select Tools from the main menu bar
• Select Options
• In the General options window, click "connection settings"
• Select the Automatic proxy configuration URL option
• Enter the following URL: http://rosie.ripe.net/proxy.pac

Internet 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 URL: http://rosie.ripe.net/proxy.pac

The RIPE 51 cache uses Squid. This is a freely available web proxy cache.

IPv6

All RIPE (wireless and wired) Ethernet ports will be IPv4/ IPv6-ready. The RIPE Meeting site will have connectivity to the IPv6 network. You should use IPv6 stateless address autoconfiguration (RFC2462). We do not provide static IPv6 addresses.

Do not run router advertisements on the RIPE Meeting network.
You can find IPv6 implementations for various laptop platforms from ipv6.org.

DHCP

We will run Dynamic DNS updates.

Static addresses

If you need static addresses, you can find RFC2322 compliant clothpegs at the Terminal Room.These will be next to the printer.