1. Campus Problems Solutions Group 7 Breakout Results
Gang of 10
Recorded by Matt Zekauskas
5 December 2000

2. Gang of 10 Matt Zekauskas Guy Almes Steve Corbato Joe Perches, Spirent
Erik Plesset, Spirent
John Streck, NC State
Kevin Walsh, SDSC
Ronn Ritke, NLANR
Joe St Sauver, Oregon
Claudia de Luna, JPL
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3. Campus Understanding Measurement box at edge
Spend month or two with mobile box, checking throughput/loss/.. from every point.
Develop a baseline to get a complete picture of the campus: map the campus networks
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4. To divide and conquer Measurement infrastructure at all boundaries
Automatically fire off tests, given two end points
Result “problem is there!”
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5. Other tools/metrics Routing db / route views Mtrace on boxes “mperf”?
Passive monitoring w/in Abilene
AS/AS, top talkers
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6. NTP everywhere! If GPS, get good NTP distribution
Allow correlation among campuses
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7. To work on end-systems
Find top 10 systems on campus, and survey ‘em. Running large windows? Recent/decent TCP w/options enabled (SACK)
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8. End-systems status Clickable link that would tell you state of host?
Applet to run on system for tests
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9. End Systems
If updating end system (to change TCP parameters) add other things at the same time: IPv6 stacks, SSM (IGRPv3)
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10. To work on Microsoft Systems
Clickable .REG – change all the defaults!
(How lucky do you feel?)
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