Fall 2023 NetGurus Meeting
Internet2 will provide NetGurus a room to be set in a closed Board style conference seating to support ~30 participants . The meeting will take place the Friday after the Technology Exchange (September 18-22) conference concludes. We will have a projector and screen available if needed by participants.
#TechEX23: Schedule
1. Tutorials, workshops, and some co-located meetings (i.e., REFEDS) begin on MONDAY, September 18; core days for track sessions and working meetings run from Tuesday, September 19 to Thursday, September 21.
2. Advance CAMP content and several co-located meetings (including NetGurus) and workshops continue into FRIDAY, September 22, so please plan your travel accordingly!
Summary
Location | Minneapolis MN |
Room | Plaza Ballroom D |
Date | Friday, September 22 2023 |
Time | 8:00am - 5:00pm |
NOTE: Breakfast is on your own. A morning snack and boxed lunches will be provided.
Pursuant to discussion at NetGurus 2022, we have decided to implement a $25 registration fee, which will allow us to offer boxed lunches. Boxed lunches will make it easier for attendees with earlier flights to get something to eat. We will no longer have a drink and snack provided in the afternoon as a result.
Tentative Agenda
Thursday 6pm | Gurus and Guests Dinner at The Local, near the hotel |
Fri Breakfast | On your own |
Fri 8:00am | Gurus start |
Fri 10:00-10:30am | Break and networking |
Fri Noon | Lunch on your own |
Fri 4:00pm | Festivities end, must clear out promptly. |
Attendance
Jason Wang, UT Austin
Alex Harris, Oregon
Niumaia Tabunakawai, University of South Pacific
Ravneel Sharma, University of South Pacific
James Harr, Internet2
Jennifer Kim, Internet2
Eric Brown, Virginia Tech
Will Whitaker, UNC Chapel Hill
Frank Seesink, UNC Chapel Hill
Aaron Smith, Swarthmore
Brian Jemes, Idaho
Clark Gaylord, George Washington
Bruce Curtis, North Dakota State
Dan Schmiedt, Texas A&M
Ed Furia, Texas A&M
Alan Whinery, Hawaii
Jimmy Kincaid, Emory
David Farmer, Minnesota
Rich Ingram, Minnesota
Kyle Bryant, Iowa State
Rayid Tartir, Georgia
Ross Lindsay, Georgia Tech
Brian Flanagan, Georgia Tech
Jacob Smith, Georgia Tech
Bill Fulk, Indiana
Jeff Ambern, Indiana
Matt Zekauskas, Internet2
Steve Schallehn, Iowa State
Discussion Topics
- Wireless
- Cloud-based wireless adoption
- Current experiences with randomized MAC addresses
- Authentication - what are vendors doing to us!
- How will certificate lifetime shortening affect campus and eduroam authentication? (not just server certs, but also client certs). Will operating systems trust private CA certs with longer lifetimes
- Eduroam onboarding tool - geteduroam.app
- Contact sho@internet2.edu
- How will certificate lifetime shortening affect campus and eduroam authentication? (not just server certs, but also client certs). Will operating systems trust private CA certs with longer lifetimes
- Automation
- Low hanging fruit example: ZTP with Juniper
- Cisco NSO - Anyone with it in production? Experiences
- Using ServiceNow for automation integratio
- Opportunities for open source collaboration between institutions to tackle common challenge
- Campus networking and segmentation
- Macro-segmentation strategies - how and how many?
- IPv6 experiences
- NAT64
- Roughly half the room has significant IPv6 deployment
- Software overlay networks (Zerotier, Tailscale) - anything new learned since TechEx22?
- Other possibilities:
- eduVPN (supports OpenVPN and Wireguard)
- TwinGate
- Netbird (another Wireguard mesh option)
- and for servers/etc. there is Slack Nebula
- Other possibilities:
- Phones and VoIP
- e-911
- Zoom/Teams phones
- Macro-segmentation strategies - how and how many?
- Security
- Cloud VPN consideration and adoption
- DDoS trends ( e.g. authoritative nameservers)
- 3rd party products (not operated by network team) and access to network infrastructure (CLI, API, SNMP, etc.) - how to handle and secure?
- Firewalls
- Mini Mikrotik firewalls
- VPN vendors in use
- Cloud VPN consideration and adoption
- Other topics
- MSI NetGurus
- Call for participation at EDUCAUSE preconference
- A10 load balancers (ADC) and Fastly WAF service experience