NetGuru 2023 - Minneapolis MN

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

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

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 
• 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  
  • Phones and VoIP
    • e-911
    • Zoom/Teams phones
• 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
• Other topics
  • MSI NetGurus
  • Call for participation at EDUCAUSE preconference
    
  • A10 load balancers (ADC) and Fastly WAF service experience