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Extending UNIMAS PingER hosts monitoring
They have remote sites in Kelabit Highlands in Barrio. There is a wireless network. the hosts are solar powered. They could install an ePinger host and ping from Unimas via the VSAT connection. Could be a month or two to set the host at Bario up. There are other telecenter sites that are similar. They could also put up hosts in these places. These telecenters include: Long Lamai, and Ba Kalalan.
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; University of Malaysia Sabah; Mimos has been added; Universiti Putra Malaysia Kampus Bintulu Sarawak (www.umsbtu.upm.edu.my) does not respond to ping; Mimos has been added.
Also for the workshop in December Unimas will invite participants from universities in West Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak, (Brunei and Kalimantan could be added). The idea is to establish regional agreement for types of studies that can be undertaken, the sharing of data and exploration of future projects. It would be good to also have measurements to these universities. We have a couple of hosts in Brunei, a commercial site in Kota Kinabalu, a couple of sites in W Malaysia. We have nothing Kalimantan. This is pretty sparse coverage. We have a couple of hosts in Brunei, a commercial site in Kota Kinabalu, a couple of sites in W Malaysia. We have nothing Kalimantan. 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.
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See https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/IEPM/ePingER+Project
They have remote sites in Kelabit Highlands in Barrio. There is a wireless network. the hosts are solar powered. They could install an ePinger host and ping from Unimas via the VSAT connection. Could be a month or two to set the host at Bario up. There are other telecenter sites that are similar. They could also put up hosts in these places. These telecenters include: Long Lamai, and Ba Kalalan.
There is also interest in ePingER, e.g. for other major sites in Malaysia and even the Kelabit highlands where its low power requirements and low cost together with the ability to host applications such as a web accessible PingER monitoring station, could be very advantageous to quantitatively study the network performance, and provide reports for decisions makers and funding agencies on how to improve the network.
Les provided information on the hardware to purchase. Looking at https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/IEPM/ePingER+Project it says:
The initial two machines were alix2d2 (see http://www.pcengines.ch/alix2d2.htm) models purchased from PCEngines (see http://www.pcengines.ch/alix.htm) located in Switzerland. The cost is about $110/machine. The machines purchased each have 256MB RAM, on a 500MHZ AMD Geode CPU, with 128KB L2 cache, and a 4GB Flash memory. They have 2 USB and 2 Ethernet interfaces. there is more information at the PCEngines site.
An ePingER App for an Android or iOS might also be an interesting project.
Next meeting
Thursday 23rd 30th August 8pm Pacific Daylight Time, Friday 24th 31st August 11am.
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- Les has sent some ideas for projects/tasks. A first cut is available.
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