On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 18:08 -0800, David Miller wrote: > Now, if this were available outside of the conference so that we could > play with it remotely from where we work, that's more interesting.
Hi David, As I posted to this list last year AARNet is willing to make a 10GE connected server in Perth available to the netdev and PFLDNet communities. There was a matching offer from the University of Manchester in England, which gives an impressive BDP (Perth-Sydney-Seattle-New York-London @ 10Gbps across production networks). Since there was no reply to the offer it went on the back burner and we've done a smaller rollout (Perth-Seattle) to suit our own immediate needs. We really appreciate your work and the work of everyone else on the netdev list, so I'll re-contact Manchester and get this back on track. If you have trouble hosting netconf next year please get in touch. Although AARNet could not sponsor the flights or accommodation we could provide everything else you require. We're not "name in bright lights" people so there would be plenty of room for other sponsors. [1] Alternatively, AARNet has been pretty successful in the past at attracting sponsorship for events which benefit our users, so if you and the netdev people were willing to hold a one-day training/workshop of interest to academic and research network users (say network host tuning) before/after your meeting then we'd have no trouble getting sponsorship via the training event that would be sufficient to cover the airfares and accommodation for the larger event. Anyway, to cut to the chase, the users of AARNet face large RTTs to get anywhere and we are very appreciative of the huge amount of work that you, John, Stephen and many others on this list have put into improving performance under the conditions we face. If we can help your work then please ask. Best wishes, Glen [1] Witness our sponsorship of linux.conf.au, where our only real request is that people don't place us in a difficult position by misusing the network we provide. -- Glen Turner, Network Engineer (08) 8303 3936 or +61 8 8303 3936 Australia's Academic & Research Network www.aarnet.edu.au -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html