CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
Reported by Gene Hastings/ PSC
Presentations
o Metin Feridun, BBN on Connectivity Tool (see handout) Mail to Metin
Feridun <mferidun@bbn.com> if you are interested in using
it.(617)-547-1870
o Ted Brunner (with Paul Tsuchiya.) on cartography database proposal
Propose a ``MIB-ish'' database format to describe router
configuration and interconnection information. See handout.
tob@thumper.bellcore.com, tsuchiya@thumper.bellcore.com
Old Business
o DOE Community name to be announced to regional operators mailing
list.
o NASA Community name to be announced to regional operators mailing
list.
o Map drawing tools
- GraphPorter, gplot (PICT>CGM>PS) GraphPorter is a commercial
product for the Macintosh that converts
PICT files to CGM (Computer Graphics Metafile) files. There is
a companion product called MetaPICT which does the reverse.
Source:
GSC Associates
2304 Artesia Blvd., Suite 201
Redondo Beach, CA 90278-3114
213-379-2113
Fax: 213-379-1649
gplot is a free collection of packages available from PSC to
manipulate CGM files and render them for arbitrary output
devices.
Supported devices include Postscript, Tektronix, and X. Source:
anonymous ftp tar file from calpe.psc.edu, in pub/gplot. Gplot
does not as yet run on a Macintosh, but it will run on most VMS
and Unix systems. Sources are in pub/gplot/src. For inclusion
in a mail distribution list, send mail to welling@psc.edu or
andrews@psc.edu Some difficulty encountered converting MacDraw
II PICT files
- Standard statistics - still no consensus
- efforts to cohere contact databases; Is whois up to date? Up
to site administrators to make sure! Make sure there is an
in-addr entry for your net, not just for hosts! -> reverse
lookup for 128.182.0.0, 192.5.146.0, etc.
New business
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o Gene Hastings volunteered PSC to produce case histories of
interesting or anomalous problems from their experience
o Matt Mathis: whatUs happening with the phasing out of Net 10?
Terrestrial Wideband showed up on a traceroute test from Cambridge
Mailbridge to CMU carrying production traffic?
o Milo: Some gateways are dumb. There are no administrative routing
controls within Wideband-Net.
o HWB: Recent change in NSFNET<>MILNET announcements leads to direct
routes within MILNET/ARPANET being preferred to NSFNET routes. For
networks directly connected to MILNET and its close relatives, like
Wideband.
It was observed that the change in NSFNET<>MILNET announcements makes
sense, but means that network managers directly connected to MILNET or
an experimental net like Wideband need to understand this and bias their
own announcements to suit their policies.
ATTENDEES
Scott Brim swb@devvax.tn.cornell.edu
Ted Brunner tob@thumper.bellcore.com
Greg Dobrich dobrich@a.psc.edu
Tom Easterday tom@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu
Metin Feridun mferidun@bbn.com
Jack Hahn hahn@umd5.umd.edu
Gene Hastings hastings@psc.edu
Greg Hollingsworth gregh@mailer.jhuapl.edu
Tom Holodnik tjh@andrew.cmu.edu
Steven Hunter hunter@ccc.mfecc.arpa
Robert Reschly reschly@brl.mil
Dan Jordt danj@cac.washington.edu
Marilyn Martin martin@cdnnet.ca
Matt Mathis mathis@pele.psc.edu
Milo Medin medin@nsipo.nasa.gov
Donald Morris morris@ucar.edu
Dave O'leary oleary@noc.sura.net
Lee Oattes oattes@utcs.utoronto.ca
Roxanne Streeter streeter@nsipo.arc.nasa.gov
Paul Tsuchiya tsuchiya@thumper.bellcore.com
Kannan Vardham kannan@oar.net
Edward Vielmetti emv@math.lsa.umich.edu
John Vollbrecht jrv@merit.edu
Carol Ward cward@spot.colorado.edu
Linda Winkler b32357@anlvm.ctd.anl.gov
Dan Wintringham danw@igloo.osc.edu
Sze-Ying Wuu wuu@nisc.junc.net
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