Thanks Bill! Are you in Ottawa where we are sending the laptops for the Nortel test bed?
Kim On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bill Mccormick wrote: > > > If nobody else is doing this, I'll volunteer. It'll be a couple of > > days though, I'm just starting. > > > > > > > Awesome! If you do take up this unpleasant, though critical task here are > my suggestions: > > Like I said before, when a user reports that "the network does not work", > this may be due to a whole lot of reasons. Being able to consistently > identify which part of the "network stack" (firmware, driver, > NetworkManager, presence stack) is malfunctioning is not feasible anytime > soon, so we better make sure that each individual layer is this network > stack has been thoroughly tested. I would suggest doing so in two > dimensions: scalability and stability. > > Scalability: Making it work on 5 machines is one thing, making it work on > 50 is another! Please test on as many machines as possible. > > Stability: Similarly, we should aim for at some 5 hours of continuous and > stable operation. > > We currently do _not_ meet these requirements and from an activity point > of view, the network look like an .... omelet rather than distinct yoke and > white!!! > > > > Pol > > -- > Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos > Graduate student > Viral Communications > MIT Media Lab > Tel: +1 (617) 459-6058 > http://www.mit.edu/~ypod/ <http://www.mit.edu/%7Eypod/> > >
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