Sorry to annoy those of you not here in Dallas, but I'm told that we have an dead access point in the main ballroom, which is causing congestion on its neighbor as everyone reassociates. Merit will replace the dead unit during the lunch break. Steve
By the way, now seems like as good a time as any to let people know about the wireless monitoring I'm doing. http://disco-stu.dyndns.org/netdisco/public_map.html is a map of access points and their loads. The radius of the circle represents the number of associated users. http://disco-stu.dyndns.org/netdisco/public_map.html?user=BillFenner shows the AP to which I am associated and/or have been associated over time. http://disco-stu.dyndns.org/netdisco/feed/BillFenner.rss is an RSS feed of the above info. I haven't finished the opt-in interface for people to put their MAC address into the database to allow you to publicize your location by map or rss feed. It was on the list of things I was going to finish on the plane, but I watched the lame movie instead. Maybe I'll be able to get it done after lunch. Bill
On 2/13/06, Bill Fenner <fenner@gmail.com> wrote:
http://disco-stu.dyndns.org/netdisco/public_map.html is a map of access points and their loads. The radius of the circle represents the number of associated users.
I think you just re-invented http://www.plazes.com - though that's mostly for jetsetters like Joi Ito :) http://joi.ito.com/archives/2005/04/26/plazes_tracking_map.html -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)
On 2/14/06, Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
I think you just re-invented http://www.plazes.com
Well, Plazes requires user behavior to begin with, and doesn't distinguish between multiple access points with the same SSID and same subnet. Plazes could say "NANOG in Dallas" but not which side of the hotel. My system comes more from the network administrator's point of view, talking to the APs directly instead of hearing from the clients, plus can provide a more detailed version of "where am I?". You're right that Plazes seems to be for people who want to brag about how much they roam around. I stopped using it when I found that the MacOS menubarlet crashes constantly when using tunnel interfaces. (Since fixed, I hear, but I don't think it's really my bag anyway.) Bill
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