RE: London meet - ORGANISATION

["BUTLER, Tony, FM" <tony.butler@xxxxxxx>]

> a) Obviously we will want a 10/100 wired network,
> b) Do we want to try to set up a WiFi network as well?
> c) Presumably we will require DHCP services and so on
> d) We'll require a machine to host Ian's HDD's with the MP3 archive
on

Nice one - If ppl want I will bring my audiotron & we can hook it up to
the
MP3 archive machine!

> Keiran is also nearby, available, and ready to assist... - K, 

I work about 20 mins from Lon bridge, so can probably bunk off early to
help
if need be.
Don't want too many ppl tripping over each other though presumably!!

> I reckon we'll need at least one server setup to do (c) and 
> (d) above, - I 
> can take care of that if required, - I can build a W2K server 
> in advance 
> with DHCP scopes configured and so on... and just plug it in 
> on the day.

DHCP maybe overkill for what is just a couple of machines linked together
-
it doesn't take long to set fixed IP's on a couple of machines.....

> For a wireless setup, - who has the "easiest" WAP to
provide? 
> - mine's not 
> *too* bad (not hidden in the loft or anything), but I'd need 
> to totally 
> reconfigure it, - turn off WEP, turn off MAC filter, change 
> ESSID and so 
> on... - if anyone's got one that's not yet "in live use"
that 
> would save me 
> this hassle...

Can rip mine out of node 0 as no WEP etc set up - living in a road of
crusties, I doubt many of them know what a network is, let alone how to
go
about hacking one :-)
It's the usual Linksys WAP11 jobbie.

Tony



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