Meetings/290909

Attendance: Ben Hussey, Steven Hill, Brian Campbell, James Addison, Chris Thompson (GameSoc), Marco Elver (Cluster Project), Kenneth Strouts (Cluster Project)

Discussed

Future Location of Tardis

• Weighed up access opportunities to the forum against possibility of obtaining space another department
• A cupboard in Appleton Tower for setup/storage would be useful
• Agreed that the housing tardis in the informatics forum is probably the best solution
• We will probably be restricted to access within teaching hours but we will have to work around this.

Tutorials/Workshops/Talks

• Workshops dependant on space to play with servers
• Talks about something (sjh: DNS/bind?) (Jay: webservers?)

Cluster Project

• Has potential to be turned off if Inf deem us to be using too much power * cluster can be used 'on demand'
• Networking for nodes plugged into head node
• NetLOM of each node plugged into switch
• LOM passwords need changed

Gamesoc

• New agreement see GameSoc
• Server will need to talk out to the internet on certain ports (some gameservers require this to function)
• Possible wake-on-lan (server will probably only be used once a week)
• Steve will try to pinch acquire a nice server for them to use (Intel based please)

Router

• Possibly use a Sun 210 as the router
• Has gigabyte network card with four interfaces
• LOM (network plugged straight into Inf network) as a fallback if it breaks

Other Boxes

• Other 210: possibly install solaris to make sjh happy
• Move donated stuff (BT donated) to cupboard

Decommision

• 2x Netra (will need returned to Charles)
• Adric can be decommissioned

Networking

• Rearrange VLans to make things neater
• Network management in separate Vlan
• Cluster and network management in own Vlan

Other

• Open up outbound IRC (through bouncer to prevent port-forwarding via ssh)