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We had a meeting with UNIMAS and UM on 11/15/2012. Information background information can be found at: here and the minutes are also available. Kashif and Anjum hope to attend. We will probably meet in KL before going onto Kuching..
UNIMAS is monitoring other Malaysian and Indonesian hosts outside the regular Beacons. There was a problem with nort meausing not measuring the individual pinspings. this was caused by a change in the format of the ping response. This has been fixed in the master copy at SLAC (but not in the tarball) and UNIMAS.
There is a problem with the UNIMAS traceroute. It appears pinger.unimas.my is behind a NAT taht is not passing the traceroute UDP probes.
I have fixed the web site providing script documentation. It is at http://www-iepm.slac.stanford.edu/pinger/scripttable.html
. The problem was a failing web service.
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From Arshad: Rector has agreed to support one person visit to SLAC. Please select the best candidate. Arshad is away in either the UK or Korea. When he returns Anjum will get more information. It could be 6 months or a year, and will probably be Kashif. This should be settled in by Nov 21, 2012.
Pakistani Hosts
AIR has an IP address problem.
Pakistani monitors: good=32, no_data=8, partial_data=8, problems=16, total=48,
PERN monitors: good=8, no_data=2, partial_data=3, total=13, problems=5,
Pingerpwr had an IP address issue (they need to change their address). This has been fixed. PIEAS and IIU have new installations in progress. They are both down. PIEAS has a security concern. IIU were going to do their own install, then requested Joun to do the install but they have not provided access to Joun,
Joun and Kashif visited Air University PoP (pingerisl-air.pern.edu.pk) node on friday 16th Nov. Joun did the new installation and they even changed the SFP converter at router but the problem was still there. Then luckily the HEC Guy was also there and we requested him to check the router configuration. He changed the port and settings and then the node got another life. The node is working fine now.
The SAU strike is over but they are were then short of IP addresses. NUST will work with HEC to get an IP address.This has now been fixed. now there are power problems.
The problem of traffic between FSBD and Quetta going via Europe due to not having a Pakistan IXP has been by passed by keeping all traffic both ways on WorldCall.
Since there is no IXP in Pakistan so the peering is done abroad. Anwar Amjad (of HEC) would like NUST to put together a workshop/meeting to look at providing a neutral point for an IXP for PTCL, SuperNet and WorldCom. If the IXP is at HEC then it will need to upgrade all its links to PERN-II so it can carry the extra traffic. If this is funded it could take 4-6 months.
Setting up an IXP for Malaysia may also be an interesting topic for the workshop in December,
Non Pakistani Hosts
I am actively working with Algeria. I have asked for an update from UCSD, currently the host is not pingable, I am awaiting a reply from Algeria.. UCSD is back up. UERJ/Brazil has a routing problem. UFRJ and Taiwan are also having problems.I have sent email to UFRJ. Taiwan appears to be back up (Dec 17).
TULIP
Raja has been busy defending his proposal on (Nov 5th), so there is no progress on TULIP. A suggestion taht came out of the defense was to use TBG constraints. However this is very time consuming. So how to use it optimally will take some study.
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