Fall 2022 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 (December 5-8) conference concludes. We will have a projector and screen available if needed by participants.
#TechEX22: Schedule
1. Tutorials, workshops, and some co-located meetings (i.e., REFEDS) begin on MONDAY, December 5; core days for track sessions and working meetings run from Tuesday, December 6 to Thursday, December 8.
2. Advance CAMP content and several co-located meetings (including NetGurus) and workshops continue into FRIDAY, December 9, so please plan your travel accordingly!
Summary
Location | Denver CO |
Room | Plaza Ballroom D |
Date | Fri. December 9 2022 |
Time | 8:00am - 5:00pm |
NOTE: Breakfast and lunch are on your own. A morning and afternoon break with snacks and beverages will be provided. We will go to dinner as a group the night before.
Tentative Agenda
Thursday 5:30pm | Gurus and Guests Dinner at Yard House at the Denver Sheraton |
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 2:30-3:00pm | Break and networking |
Fri 5:00pm | Festivities end, must clear out promptly. |
Attendance
Contact Dan Schmiedt or Andrew Gallo to RSVP and for topics you wish to discuss during the meeting. Attendance limit is 30ish.
Dan Schmiedt - Texas A&M
Andrew Gallo - GWU
James Harr - Internet2
Paul Murray - Stanford
Dan Vance - Oregon
Frank Seesink - UNC
Will Whitaker - UNC
Bruce Curtis - NDSU
Jason Wang - UT Austin
Amy Liebowitz - Michigan
Bingdong Li - Tennessee State
Brian Flanagan - Georgia Tech
Hung Luu - DePaul
Drew Lake - DePaul
Laura Kristoff - Northwestern
Ben Stinchcomb - Internet2
David Sinn - Washington
Rayid Tartir - Georgia
Aaron Smith - Swarthmore
Jon Young - consultant
Jelene Crehan - U Illinois-Chicago
Brian Jemes - Idaho
Rich Ingram - Minnesota
Colin Murphy - Minnesota
David Farmer - Minnesota
Jeremy Schafer - Rutgers
Eric Brown - Virginia Tech
Discussion Topics
- Wireless
- Campus wireless horror stories
- Open Source Controller?
- eduroam nas_id naming standards for inter-org troubleshooting
- Establishing shared credentialing capabilities for testing and troubleshooting authentication from other institutions, modeled on PerfSONAR
- 5G and CBRS for campuses
- Automation
- Looking for small scale network automation options to go beyond simple Ansible running on a laptop.
- BNS
- Why isn’t there a really goodTerraform provider for configuring networks running IOS-?? and JunOS?
- Tools
- Campus Networking / Segmentation
- EVPN-VXLAN replacing virtual chassis in Juniper switching/routing
- EVPN
- Network Overlay
- EVPN/VXLAN adoption.
- IPv6 deployment experience and strategy
- High performance overlay (eg wireguard)
- Network Architecture for 100% north/south flows
- Campus Design (L3/building vs backhaul), LAG, chassis vs. fixed switch
- Integrating research networking into a production campus environment
- Preferred DNS/DHCP
- Security
- Routing Security
- ZTA
- NAC setup/solutions
- Updated NAC solution, particular dot1x on wired
- Campus RBAC/ZTA
- Campus firewalling/NAT
- BGP Threat Feeds (flowspec) / RTBH
- What feeds are being used
- UT Austin wrote an API for their security team to use to inject blackhole routes
- How often border filters are updated
- Use block/allow instead of blacklist/whitelist
- Network Firewall Policy manager
- Network Honeypots
- CMMC
- RBAC and the cloud
- DDoS
- Cloud/SaaS
- SaaS network management tools - the good, the bad, and the ugly;
- Cloud network architectures (loosely coupled and tightly coupled).
- Other
- Readying next generation Network Engineers
- Work-study students, permissions, training
- Making sure the students have actual guided work and a mentor, and not just boring grunt work
- Working with the relevant departments to have promising students directed to you
- Writing an exit note
- Community Training
- Self-service network troubleshooting
- Campus Direction
- Public Safety Radio
- IT Disaster Resource Center
- Building Management Tools for Campus Networks
- DNS record management
- Network Monitoring
- High Performance Computing / infrastructure and storage support / 100G Edge
- Building Automation
- Readying next generation Network Engineers
- Next year
- Remove "invitation only" and utilize Internet2 registration (I'm iffy on this personally)
- Box lunches and $25 fee, lose the afternoon break