[net-perf] CENIC piPEs

[Michael Sinatra]

On Wed, 4 May 2005, Michael Van Norman wrote:

> I have bwctl servers up and running here at UCLA, so give me a call to 
> exchange keys.  Right now, bwctl and owamp need to be a separate machines.  I 
> believe that the I2 people are working on removing that restriction.  On the 
> NTP server issue, we probably have enough stratum 1 servers within CalREN to 
> meet the need.

Feel free to use Berkeley's stratum-1 servers:

ntp1-1.berkeley.edu
ntp1-2.berkeley.edu

For my test boxes, I am using Berkeley's stratum-1s, plus UCLA's 
stratum-1s plus one or two other random ones.  For owamp, would it make 
sense to use the _same_ stratum-1s across all of the test boxes?

michael

> Mike Iglesias wrote:
>> For the CENIC piPEs setup, will CENIC be suggesting one computer for
>> each function (bwctl, owamp, ndt)?  I'd like to know so I can look at
>> getting more systems (we have 4 now, for 3 locations plus one floater)
>> to get proper coverage.
>> 
>> One computer for each function is suggested on the
>> http://e2epi.internet2.edu/network-perf-wk/requirements.html page.
>> 
>> I have bwctl and owamp setup on two computers (one at the border and
>> one in the building I'm in).  If anyone wants to play around with bwctl
>> and/or owamp, let me know and I can set something up for you.
>> 
>> One other thing - the "requirements" web page talks about having to use
>> stratum 1 ntp servers for these systems, but we already have campus ntp
>> servers that talk to several stratum 1s out on the internet and the
>> testing systems are setup to get time from them.  I'd really rather not
>> have to hunt down more stratum 1s for these boxes.
>> 
>> 
>> Mike Iglesias                          Email: 
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