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The meeting was by Skype at 11am in Sarawak as usual.
Follow up on Discussions with VC
Unimas will invite Les to visit Unimas for the order of a week or more to coincide with the Unimas 20 year anniversary celebrations on December 12th, 2012. Unimas will send Les a formal letter of invitation to aid with visa etc.
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Unimas are going to propose a project to install ePingER hosts in remote Sarawak communities such as Bario in the Kelabit highlands. Initially these would simply be PingER targets responding to pings. Later depending on bandwidth availabilty etc. They could also be turned into PingER monitoring hosts and a web site.
Les has not found any conferences/meetings etc in the US that could be part of an trip by UNIMAS folks to SLAC. There is an Internet2 / ESnet Joint Techs meeting from the 13th-17th January 2013 in Hawaii. The focal areas are: Network Research and Emerging Technologies; Network Architecture and Operations; R&E Network Applications. there are also usually session on non US networks, for example at the last meeting at Stanford there was a talk on Challenges of Building an Affordable and Scalable Wireless Network at Universities in West Africa & KENET: Where we are , see http://www.internet2.edu/presentations/jt2012summer/20120718-Wanja-Njue.pdf and http://www.internet2.edu/presentations/jt2012summer/20120718-Togo-challenges%20building%20wifi%20networks.pdf. Les does not currently know of a particular relevant other conference/meeting especially one on the West Coast of the US or even better in the Bay Area.
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Imran has successfully assigned the DNS name pinger.unimas.my to the UNIMAS PingER monitor (49.50.236.98). Les has tested the ping and traceroute servers and the ping_data server and all work correctly. Les will update the meta data for this host in the PingER database ent email to Mohamad 8/22/2012 to coordinate the changes to the PingER meta data base (NODEDETAILS) and let Imran know so Imran can change the <SrcName> in pinger.xml file at UnimasUNIMAS.
Extending UNIMAS PingER hosts monitoring
Has there been any progress on extending pinger.xml at UNIMAS to add a dozen or more hosts in Malaysia. Les sent email to Johari 8/22/2012 requesting an update
It would also be interesting to extend the monitoring to other more centrally connected hosts in the cities of Malaysia. The following hosts were suggested: Mimos in West Malaysia, KL; Kota Kinabalu, the University Malaysia Sabah; Swinburne in Kuching, Miri, Manipal university in KL. Les tested pinging these universities: Swinburne (www.swinburne.edu.my) does not ping; www.curtin.edu.my in Miri does not ping; www.segi.edu.my in Kuching does not ping; University of Malaysia Sabah(www.ums.edu.my) does not respond to ping; Manipal International University pings and has been added to the hosts monitored by SLAC; Mimos has been added; Universiti Putra Malaysia Kampus Bintulu Sarawak (www.btu.upm.edu.my) has been added. Can someone help in finding hosts to monitor in this region (Malaysia, Brunei, Kalimantan) so we get a better perspective of performance before the workshop.
Has there been any progress on extending pinger.xml at UNIMAS to add a dozen or more hosts in Malaysia.
Concerning extending the PingER monitor at UNIMAS to add remote hosts in Malaysia to the list of hosts monitored Johari has just joined the team and will be identifying hosts to ping in Malaysia, and then add them to pinger.xml. For how to add hosts to pinger.xml see: http://www-iepm.slac.stanford.edu/pinger/faq.html#extra.
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When a reasonable amount of data has been gathered then a case study could be be made of the connections to the remote sites, to identify and compare the performance.
Imran Had problems testing the pinger measurement agent at his house. Private IP address maybe the problem since they use NATs at Barrio and probably at Imran's home.
By the next meeting they plan to have made a lot of progress on extending pinger.xml to add a dozen or more hosts in Malaysia.
ePingER
See https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/IEPM/ePingER+Project
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