Re: [Debconf-team] Questions about the Cape Town bid

2015-01-27 Thread Graham Inggs
On 27/01/2015 13:41, Aigars Mahinovs wrote: Having a dedicated SSID with a password is much preferred to having to enter some username/password in a web form. It wouldn't be in a web form. We use WPA EAP, so it would be set up when first connecting to the network. __

Re: [Debconf-team] Questions about the Cape Town bid

2015-01-27 Thread Aigars Mahinovs
On Tue Jan 27 2015 at 11:34:47 Graham Inggs wrote: > They could give us our own SSID, but he didn't seem to think it would > be necessary. > Having a dedicated SSID with a password is much preferred to having to enter some username/password in a web form. This was quite painful last year and I

Re: [Debconf-team] Questions about the Cape Town bid

2015-01-27 Thread Graham Inggs
Hi All On 01/17/2015 09:49 AM, Richard Hartmann wrote: > I don't think it's good to have per-user logins managed by the > university; can we get confirmation that setting up our own eduroam > realm would be OK? > Even better if we could establish our own SSID on their infrastructure. I met with B

Re: [Debconf-team] Questions about the Cape Town bid

2015-01-25 Thread Stefano Rivera
Hi Richard (2015.01.18_02:17:08_+0200) > If those are Cisco APs on a Cisco AC, simply adding a new SSID > "DebConf" and dropping that as a VLAN would probably be easiest. > > Getting confirmation if that would work would be interesting. Also, as > they seem to have enough IPv4 space, could we get

Re: [Debconf-team] Questions about the Cape Town bid

2015-01-17 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 8:12 PM, Allison Randal wrote: > We have talked about the possibility of dropping in > our own dedicated 5.2GHz wifi network (all the access points in the > building have secondary slots for 5.2GHz cards which are currently > empty). Graham is still investigating what's pos

Re: [Debconf-team] Questions about the Cape Town bid

2015-01-17 Thread Allison Randal
On 01/17/2015 09:49 AM, Richard Hartmann wrote: > Dear all, > > do I understand correctly that save for the day trip and conference > dinner, UCT Upper Campus is self-contained and would allow us to stay > on-campus 24/7? Yes, it's totally possible. Since the center of town is so close, with hun

[Debconf-team] Questions about the Cape Town bid

2015-01-17 Thread Richard Hartmann
Dear all, do I understand correctly that save for the day trip and conference dinner, UCT Upper Campus is self-contained and would allow us to stay on-campus 24/7? How far are Jammie Hall, Leslie 2a, and Snape LT1 by foot and other means? I don't think it's good to have per-user logins managed by