CofC Wired Connection information

[Chad Hobbs]

Hey all,

I just got out of a meeting with CofC IT department concerning our
wired/wifi needs at the conference. Everything is lined up but they would
like to do some things to make sure the event doesn't have unforeseen
problems.

They implement some IPS/IDS that could interfere with
streaming/hosting/broadcasting from within the cofc network. They are
asking for a list of specific programs and what traffic they generate so
that they can look at their security and adjust it ahead of time.

VPN/VNC/SSH/HTTPS and other very popular ports and protocols are already
allowed on the network, and should cover the majority of the needs.


However, my question is what systems are speakers/organizers going to be
bringing in that:
1. Would like to have a wired connection
2. Run something that could trip their intrusion detection system
3. Host services that will be accessed from outside the cofc network

An example of something that will not be allowed is an FTP server. They
won't go for that.
Something that I am looking to hear about is something like a locally
hosted video player system for people to remote into from Europe.

Thanks!

[Ruth Suehle]

On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Chad Hobbs <chaddhobbs(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  An example of something that will not be allowed is an FTP server. They
>  won't go for that.
>  Something that I am looking to hear about is something like a locally
>  hosted video player system for people to remote into from Europe.
>  
We do intend to do video streaming--I'll send you what I know so far.

[Paul W. Frields]

On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 11:48:16AM -0400, Ruth Suehle wrote:
>  On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Chad Hobbs
> <chaddhobbs(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  
>  >
>  > An example of something that will not be allowed is an FTP server. They
>  > won't go for that.
>  > Something that I am looking to hear about is something like a locally
>  > hosted video player system for people to remote into from Europe.
>  >
>  
>  We do intend to do video streaming--I'll send you what I know so far. 
At FUDCon Lawrence we found that for several talks it was really
effective to use a Google Hangout.  There was a specific set of steps
the hosting person could follow to stream content through YouTube, and
simultaneously capture to a video people could watch after the fact.

Example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if5BJX9WLEc

This likely uses a certain set of ports to do the capture outward.
Recommend we include this as a backup plan, since our experience in
previous large Fedora events was that other ad-hoc solutions (1)
didn't cover all the material the community was interested in seeing
after the fact, and (2) sometimes didn't function as planned.

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