[6548] in Release_7.7_team
new dialup testing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark W. Manley)
Thu Dec 10 12:56:29 2009
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:56:19 -0500 (EST)
From: "Mark W. Manley" <mmanley@MIT.EDU>
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Greetings, release-team members.
As promised, I have created a prototype Linux dialup to which the members
of this mailing list can telnet/ssh/rsh. Feel free to connect to:
ringworld.mit.edu
as yourself and kick some tires around. A few notes:
1. It's a prototype. I can't emphasize this point enough. As such, it
has less memory and vCPUs than we plan for production use. We're planning
now some dedicated VMWare hypervisors on which to run the dialups, but it
may be a teeny bit of time before these come into fruition.
2. Because it's a prototype, I have restricted access to this box in two
ways. One, you can only connect to it via a 18.x.x.x address. When we go
to make these available to the general user community, it will cease to
have this restriction. The other is that I have set PAM to disallow
people that aren't receiving this mail from logging in. I took the people
from the release-team mailing list and coded it into the access.conf file
since dynamic lists weren't working so hot. This restriction will also
vanish when we replace the current test.dialup box (cvp).
I welcome constructive comments.
Thanks,
-MM
