SEMiSLUG Notes
12 June 1998
Question & Answer Sessions
- Why does catia suck?
- Perhaps it was written by mechanical engineers instead of
software ones.
"Is there a difference between how it handles local files vs. NFS
files?" -- Ed Vielmetti
- Where, if not ITI, are we going to meet?
- SGI office? Cross that bridge when we come to it?
- Any experience with Cold Fusion? Does it live up to it's hype? Is it
worth downloading?
- Much silence from the gathered crowd.
- Any suggestions for a batch queueing system other than dqs?
- Multics used to have a really nice one. No good answer.
- WinNT: every now and then it decides to redraw all the icons for no
apparent reason. Why?
- Because it's a Microsoft product? Stupid housekeeping programming
is a possibility.
- There is a linux driver for the MediaOne one-way cable modems. Has
anyone played with it?
- If so, talk to Troy. (If you want the driver, write to Troy
for info.)
- Inexpensive, unix accounting package (business) that interfaces with
RealServer 5.0?
- Looking for a way to meter a data stream. No concrete suggestions.
- Is there any platform where RealServer 5.0 works reliably?
- Some Win95 boxes and SGI, at least.
- Jobs offered? Jobs wanted?
- Contact Becki or Troy if you're hiring. SGI is looking for a
few bodies. Take to MJO for more information.
- Anyone got any spare bandwidth?
- Becki is looking for some. No offers, so far.
- Anything smaller than Majordomo for running mailing lists?
- Look around for Petidomo. Smartlist (distributed with procmail)
is another possibility. A combined contact manager and mailing
list manager would be ideal.
- Are there any SEMiSLUG members who do not know Michael J. O'Connor?
- Yes, but you really don't want to meet him.
- Why did Vixie blacklist microsoft.com?
- They where being bad. The block's been removed.
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Presentation
Welcome and Abuse of Old Members
OSPF and Routers
"One of the most anal-retentive protocols I've ever seen." -- Josh
It's a fairly rescent protocol, designed to cope with groups of
addresses that fall outside the traditional class A/B/C blocks.
Jay Moy, formerly of Cascade, formerly of Proteon, is the author
of the protocol.
OSPF routers exchange info with neighbors, doing a sort of
"ihave,sendme" exchange.
The designated router keeps control, even if a router with higher
priority comes on line.
Unlike RIP, it actually calulates the best route, rather than relying
on the metric. (It produces a weighted graph.)
RIP requires each router to know the whole picture. OSPF shares
limited information about what is behind it.
Areas of aggregation keep things abstracted.
The lack of a good debugger is highly frustrating. Sort of like
the old compiliers that would read a deck of cards and respond
with a 1 or 0.
"It's a hell of a protocol" -- Ed
Rumor & Inuendo
- We may not have ITI as a meeting place for long.
- ADSL is being offered in more places.
- Keep an eye open for the Sprint Ion. It should be interesting.
- Sun is putting NFS/NSS in the public domain in an attempt to make
it an Internet standard.
- Cicso has licenced Qnx.
- Lucent has bought Livingston and may be buying Ascend.
- NANOG converence in Dearborn was cool.
- Microsoft's PPTP implementation has several security holes.