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Network Information

External Connectivity

The IETF 119 network connects to the Internet using one 10Gb/s donated by AARNet and two 10Gb/s uplinks donated by Aussie Broadband. The IETF uses the following network prefixes:

• 2001:67c:370::/48
• 2001:67c:1230::/46
• 31.133.128.0/18
• 31.130.224.0/20

The IETF NOC supplies connectivity for the conference space and Aussie Broadband provided Dark fiber to the Rydges and Novotel venue hotels allowing us to extend the network to both hotel for this meeting.

Meeting Room Wireless at the BCEC

WiFi (802.11 a/g/n/ac/ax) is provided throughout the venue on 2.4 and 5GHz bands with IPv4 and IPv6.

At IETF 118 the IETF meeting WiFi was moved from WPA2-Enterprise with RADIUS (802.1x) to WPA3 PSK with a fallback to WPA2. While we'd like to be able to only do WPA3, we've discovered that many devices don't yet support it, so we currently are using Transition mode (fallback to WPA2). This remains for IETF 119.

Most users should choose the 'ietf' SSID:

password: ietfietf

Here’s a quick summary of the available WiFi networks:

SSID	Description	Frequencies	IP Versions
ietf	The default network	5Ghz only	v4 and v6
ietf-nat64	IPv6 stack with NAT64 to access IPv4 resources	5Ghz only	v6 with NAT64 & DNS64
eduroam	Educational users	2.4 and 5Ghz	v4 and v6

The WiFi network implements two BCP38-like filters:

• Packets from manually configured IPv4 addresses that are not assigned by DHCP are dropped. DHCP packets are snooped by our wireless LAN controllers to perform this filtering.
• Packets from IPv4 and IPv6 addresses that cannot be resolved via ARP/ND are filtered out. Proxy ARP/ND is performed by our wireless LAN controllers for this filtering.

Terminal Room

The Terminal Room is located in P4. The Terminal Room is open 8:30-19:00 beginning Sunday, March 17, 2023, at 16:00 and ending on Friday, March 22, 2023, at 15:00. The room consists of table seats, wired access, and 220V power ports.

The terminal room has no terminals, PCs, or other user-accessible machines. It is simply a place to get power, wired and WiFi Internet access, and work quietly.

When using the Ethernet connections in the Terminal Room, IPv4 addresses are provided by DHCP. Please use Stateless Auto-configuration for IPv6 (SLAAC). A DHCPv6 server or RDNSS will provide network information.

Please note that at the request of the IETF Chair, demonstrations are no longer permitted in the Terminal Room.

Guest Rooms and Public Space at the Rydges and Novotel

Aussie Broadband installed new fiber to the BCEC the Rydges and Novotel hotels. Because of this work, for this meeting we are able to extend our network in both hotels. The IETF network covers the guest rooms and the public spaces throughout the hotels using the 'ietf-hotel' SSID. If you have performance issues, please let us know.

It's important to note that while the IETF meeting network provides internet connectivity, guest rooms and public spaces are covered by the hotel's access points. As such, there may be limitations to the extent of improvements we can make. If you experience any issues with the 'ietf-hotel' SSID, you can contact our Help Desk or email support @ ietf.org, and we will be happy to assist you.

Help Desk

IT support is being provided next to the Registration Desk and will be staffed during the following hours:

Day	Hours
Sunday	16:00 - 17:00
Monday	8:30 - 17:00
Tuesday	8:30 - 17:00
Wednesday	8:30 - 17:00
Thursday	8:30 - 17:00
Friday	8:30 - 15:00

NOC and Ticketing

To communicate with the NOC staff, send an email to support @ ietf.org with as much detail regarding your issue and configuration as possible.

Please provide the following information:

• MAC Address
• Current Location
• Device type and operating system
• Description of the issue

Use this link to pre populate an email to the NOC. Submit a request

Help Us Help You

We publish a csv file containing the BSSID of our access points, if you want to be able to report the name of the AP you're connected to.

https://files.meeting.ietf.org/annotations/ap7000-annotations.csv

This csv format can be consumed natively as "Annotations" by popular Mac applications such as WiFi Signal (a menubar status widget) and WiFi Explorer (a wi-fi scanner).

Suggested configuration for WiFi Signal: under Status:

Display Pattern Line 1: **%N** %TMbps **%A**

Display Pattern Line 2: Ch%C@%W %I

This information will expedite ticket processing. If you're on-site and need direct network assistance (i.e., you have no network), please go to the Help Desk.

Services

The following network services are provided:

Service	Address	Notes
NTP	ntp.meeting.ietf.org	A stratum 2 time service is provided via unicast IPv4 and IPv6
DNS	ns1.meeting.ietf.org ns2.meeting.ietf.org	Validating recursive resolvers. The local domain is meeting.ietf.org.

These services are provided by the following servers:

Name	IPv4	IPv6
services-1.meeting.ietf.org	31.130.229.6	2001:67c:370:229::6
services-2.meeting.ietf.org	31.130.229.7	2001:67c:370:229::7

Geolocation

There is a geolocation feed published here: https://noc.ietf.org/geo/google.csv

Geolocation service for event networks is often incorrect. Suggestions and assistance are welcomed. You can also try searching via https://www.google.com/ncr (no country re-direct).

Experiments

Experiments on the IETF network need to be approved by the IETF Chair. For IETF 119, no network experiments were requested.

Thanks

The terminal room and IETF network are made possible by our sponsors' contributions and our volunteer team's efforts. If you see them in the halls, be sure to thank them for their work!

Contributors:

• Juniper Networks
• Cisco
• Flexoptics

Connectivity:

• AARNet
• Aussie Broadband

Volunteers:

• Hirochika Asai (Preferred Networks/WIDE)
• Rob Austein (Arrcus)
• Joe Clarke (Cisco)
• Bill Fenner (Arista)
• Bill Jensen (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
• Hans Kuhn (NSRC)
• Warren Kumari (Google)
• Karen O'Donoghue
• Clemens Schrimpe
• Stephen Walsh (AARNet)

Staff:

• Daniel Branik
• Aiden Branik
• Sean Croghan
• Thomas Eichinger
• Con Reilly