Re: [93attendees] Hilton Guest Room Internet Update

[Michael Richardson <[e-mail]>]

Jim Martin <[e-mail]> wrote:
    > For the wireless, we’ve lit up the “ietf-hotel” ssid on the existing
    > APs, both in the public space and guestrooms. These are the same APs
    > that provide the “hhonors” SSID. While the APs seem to have been
    > originally deployed reasonably, there has been hotel building changes
    > (mostly regarding new sprinkler systems) which has had them moved
    > around in the hallways to very suboptimal locations. This has led to
    > many areas having low to no signal. Additionally, their 2.4G channel
    > assignment and power levels weren’t optimal. Mikenopa has been trying
    > to move APs and reconfigure the channels.

So, a repeat of the Paris IETF effort... :-)

    > Additionally, due to our desire to use public IPv4 space, we’ve seen
    > very high broadcast loads. This is based in the fact that we’ve got a
    > large block that is sparsely used, and thus when we get scanned (as
    > happens constantly from the greater Internet) we get a large amount of
    > ARP traffic which can overload the wireless system. We’ve been working
    > on various techniques to reduce this load.

This seems like a recurring problem, obscured only because of the
one-way-ness of NAT44; that it will get worse as we move to IPv6 everywhere
(with s/ARP/ND/).  I wonder if we need new advice to routers.

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Michael Richardson <[e-mail]>ca>, Sandelman Software Works
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