IPv6 deployment – irc.ox.ac.uk and ntp6.oucs.ox.ac.uk complete

Our targets for the IPv6 deployment for this week have been mostly successful Enabling IPv6 to first half and now the second half of the OUCS server room has been completed, we’ve had no complaints of disruption from other teams … Continue reading

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IPv6 and related work over the next month

We’ve a timeline of work for the IPv6 deployment for the next month which might be of interest to some and at the same time we’ve work updating the hardware and operating systems for certain core services. There’s other services … Continue reading

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Implementing Spanning Tree

Some of the IT support staff have taken the recently published IPv6 trial conditions quite seriously and we’ve already had two queries with regards to the spanning tree requirement. These queries aren’t disputing it but rather asking about specific behaviour … Continue reading

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Machine Room IPv6 and checklist for early IPv6 adopters

We’ve made some progress, we’ve reached agreement with the security team that we can enable IPv6 on the OUCS machine room hardware starting 7th September, which means we will be able to start making our core network services IPv6 capable. … Continue reading

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The State of the IPv6 Deployment

At the ICT conference I gave a talk alongside Bob Franklin from Cambridge. Bob covered IPv6 in general and then I covered a deployment case study using our teams deployment plans but trying to make it as general as possible … Continue reading

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OWL and Eduroam

There seems to be a little confusion out there about how OWL relates to Eduroam so this is a overview to help clarify the situation. We have deployed Eduroam using WPA enterprise. Briefly from the users perspective this means that … Continue reading

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Webcache Hardware Refresh

Our servers are kept in warranty/hardware support so that hardware failures can be quickly replaced with minimum effect on the service. The webcache has had new hardware purchased for it to replace hardware going out of warranty. I’ve been preparing … Continue reading

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OWL Phase 2 WAP, Oxpoints integration

When OWL Phase 2 funding was given we were asked to quickly put together a database table and front end so that IT support staff could register access points. We were aware at the time that the schema was going … Continue reading

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OUCS Data Centre Clean-Up

This is just a minor post about our day to day background operations. Our team is currently making efforts to clear up our equipment and locations, spurred on by Having a new data centre manger Having IT support staff inductions … Continue reading

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