[wplug-board] iproute2

[Terence J. Golightly]

On Fri 27 Apr 2012 05:51:07 PM EDT, John Lewis wrote:
> Go ahead and announce it. I will be at the Wilkins School Community
> Center at around 12:30 to account for setup time. I'm going to write a
> background of myself base on the attached resume and relevant
> information. Resume itself will need to be updated soon.
>
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Terence J. Golightly
> <terencejgolightly at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 04/27/2012 07:14 AM, John Lewis wrote:
>>> Sorry I took so long to get back to you, I thought I could complete
>>> the whole presentation done but I had a busy week. The tex file is
>>> what I am currently working on for WPLUG and I plan to compile it to a
>>> PDF. It is still not typeset but it will be typeset with the Beamer
>>> Macro to turn it into a presentation. The odp was something I did for
>>> a  technical support & customer service class. Right now the school
>>> work is seeming light this weekend so I will contact you again later
>>> today or early tomorrow on my progress. I would very likely have
>>> something workable for 5/12/2012 before the end of this weekend.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 9:37 AM, Terence J. Golightly
>>> <terencejgolightly at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> John,
>>>>
>>>> Do you have an outline of your presentation?  Something committed to
>>>> paper or electronically.  I would like to see what will be presented and
>>>> know the approximate length.  You don't need to get back to me
>>>> immediately.  However, if you would like to get slotted in for May's
>>>> meeting, then a couple of days please.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Terry
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 04/22/2012 06:45 AM, John Lewis wrote:
>>>>> It can pretty much be done from any computer, physical or virtual, as
>>>>> long as it is running a distribution that has iproute2 installed
>>>>> already and it has all the iproute2 modules. Some of the undocumented
>>>>> commands won't be in the man page but are installed anyway such as ip
>>>>> tuntap. ip help could be used to see what modules are actually
>>>>> installed. I believe Debian Squeeze has all of the newest modules. A
>>>>> projector would be helpful in making sure people actually see the
>>>>> presentation and see the machines be networked.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 12:03 AM, Terence J. Golightly
>>>>> <terencejgolightly at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On 04/21/2012 10:46 AM, John Lewis wrote:
>>>>>>> My idea for a presentation is intro to the next generation of
>>>>>>> networking. It will be would be a presentation and demonstration of
>>>>>>> the current networking command suite iproute2 including some under
>>>>>>> documented parts. I will present some of the deprecated commands and
>>>>>>> the new commands in iproute2, what all of the commands do and how to
>>>>>>> use them. I think it is important for we to become familiar with the
>>>>>>> iproute2 networking suite because as we could tell from the
>>>>>>> installation of Arch Linux in Pat's presentation that there will be
>>>>>>> [1] no guarantee that net-tools will be installed because it is no
>>>>>>> longer maintained.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [1] https://www.archlinux.org/news/deprecation-of-net-tools/
>>>>>>> [2] http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/net-tools
>>>>>>> [3]http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/iproute2
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi John,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'd like to hear more about your presentation.  Could you send me s
>>>>>> synopsis of it and any infrastructure requirements? ig overhead
>>>>>> projector, a demo computer etc etc.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sincerely,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Terry Golightly
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> The Western Pennsylvania Linux User's Group
>>>>>> events at wplug.org
>>>>>> http://www.wplug.org
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> The Western Pennsylvania Linux User's Group
>>>> events at wplug.org
>>>> http://www.wplug.org
>>
>> John,
>>
>> I suppose WPLUG can announce your talk for this month then? Could you
>> put up a bio of yourself on the wplug wiki?  Give a little background on
>> yourself and you interests in Gnu/Linux.  We can then link to that in
>> the announcement. Looks great John.  Can't wait the see the rest.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Terry Golightly
>>
>> --
>> The Western Pennsylvania Linux User's Group
>> events at wplug.org
>> http://www.wplug.org

John,

Great!  I'll get the board to work on it right now.

Terry Golightly

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