[Lincoln LUG] IPv6 followup and future topics

[Graham Markall]

Hi Terry,

Thanks for a great talk yesterday - it was all very interesting stuff!
 
> * How does IPv6 subnetting work ?
> 
> Someone (sorry, I forgot your name!) asked me how subnetting works in IPv6;
> the following RIPE CIDR charts explain that quite well:
> 
> http://www.ripe.net/lir-services/training/material/LIR-Training-Course/LIR-Training-Handbook-Appendices/CIDR-Chart-IPv4.pdf
> http://www.ripe.net/lir-services/training/material/LIR-Training-Course/LIR-Training-Handbook-Appendices/CIDR-Chart-IPv6.pdf
> 
> If anyone wants a handy pocket-sized copy of these charts, as my business is a
> RIPE member, RIPE will supply these to us FOC and I am happy to give them to
> anyone who wants them at a future LUG meeting.

It was me who asked this - thanks for your answers, and those charts look handy
- it's relatively easy to calculate subnetting for IPv4 mentally, but the
numbers are a bit too big with IPv6!

> We also do a lot with FreeBSD for reasons which I'd be happy to elaborate on
> when Tom does his 'Why Linux sucks!' presentation ;-)

This sounds interesting - personally I'm not aware of what GNU/Linux gets wrong,
so it'd be interesting to see these perspectives.

> I would also be happy to co-ordinate PGP key signing parties at future
> meetings - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_signing_party - for those who
> don't know what I am talking about.

This sounds like a good idea!

> ... and an IRC channel would also be very nice... do we want one as I can sort
> that rather easily ?

That would be good. I've been idling in #lincslug on Freenode for a few weeks or
months, and I guess this channel belongs to the defunct Lincolnshire LUG. It
would be nice for there to be a more active IRC channel.


Best regards,
Graham.