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 5:30pmGurus 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 5:00pmFestivities 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
  • Next year
    • Remove "invitation only" and utilize Internet2 registration (I'm iffy on this personally)
    • Box lunches and $25 fee, lose the afternoon break
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