In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brian E Carpenter writes:
>Jordi, I thought that Jim Martin's message under subject
>"IETF62 Wireless Network Update" had already explained
>what was happening (and IPv6 was a victim of those
>circumstances). Of course this was very annoying and nobody
>wants to see it happen again.
>
>In my experience the IPv4 network was working *most* of the time
>after Monday, but there were roaming glitches. And if you
>unintentionally associated with the hotel network, life became
>more complicated.
>
It's also not a new problem; we've had major wireless network meltdowns
at many recent IETFs. (I'm not at this IETF; I've been at every other
one for the last 10 years, and it's an ongoing problem: running a
large-scale wireless net with no time for stress-testing is *hard*.)
--Prof. Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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