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Soda Hall Firewall Changes, Mon. 1/24 6AM

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At 6AM on Monday, January 24, we will be migrating these two Soda Hall networks to our new border firewall:

128.32.153.0/24 (Soda Hall 7th floor wired)
128.32.168.0/24 (Soda Hall 6th floor wired)

There will be a brief interruption to these networks as they are migrated. After the migration, we encourage system administrators to test that traffic across the firewall is behaving as expected.

Please contact us at help@eecs.berkeley.edu with any questions or concerns.

Sutardja Dai Hall Network Disruption, 1/6/22

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Sutardja Dai Hall networks experienced a number of interruptions and outages this morning between 6:44 and 11:21, as a result of electrical maintenance in the building which we were not informed of in advance.

We believe the network to be fully recovered at this time. Please contact us at help@eecs.berkeley.edu if you notice any ongoing issues.

Mailing lists maintenance, Dec 22 6pm

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The IRIS Mailing List Server lists.eecs.berkeley.edu will be undergoing routine maintenance tonight, Dec 22, beginning at 6pm. The server should be back no later than 6:30pm. The web interface will be unavailable during this time, and any mail sent to a list on lists.eecs.berkeley.edu will be held and distributed after the server is back up.

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Cory Hall Network Maintenance, 12/27-29

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During curtailment, on Mon-Wed December 27th-29th, we will be migrating the Cory Hall access switches from the old core switch to the building core router.

We expect wired networks will be interrupted for about a minute during the migration. Wireless networks may be interrupted for longer (possibly up to 15 minutes). This post will be updated as each stage is completed, or if any schedule changes become necessary.

Monday 12/27 11:30AM-2PM:
1F Cory (except room 165) completed!
Tuesday 12/28 12-3PM:
165 Cory completed!
3F Cory completed!
Wednesday 12/29 12-3PM:
4F Cory completed!
5F Cory completed!

Please contact us at help@eecs.berkeley.edu with any questions or concerns.

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Firewall Changes to Soda Hall 3rd and 4th Floor Networks, Mon. 12/20

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At 6AM on Monday, December 20, we will be migrating these two Soda Hall networks to our new border firewall:

128.32.112.0/24 (Soda Hall 3rd floor: primarily rooms 330, 340, and many offices along the East wall)
128.32.132.0/24 (Soda Hall 4th floor: primarily RISE Lab)

There will be a brief interruption to these networks as they are migrated. After the migration, we encourage system administrators to test that traffic across the firewall is behaving as expected.

Please contact us at help@eecs.berkeley.edu with any questions or concerns.

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IT Support During Winter 2021 Energy Curtailment

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Due to the Winter Holidays, Energy Curtailment, and New Year’s Holidays, the Berkeley campus is officially closed for the period Thursday, December 23 to Friday, December 31, reopening on Monday, January 3, 2022. 

All departmental computing servers will remain on and should be available during the break, but there will be no staff on site to provide any computing support or handle any requests. Automatic monitoring systems will alert staff to critical infrastructure problems, and any such problems will be dealt with on a best-effort basis.

The IRIS Helpdesk office will be closed Monday, December 22 through Friday, January 7, re-opening on January 10. If you need assistance between December 20-22 or January 3-7, please email help@eecs, and we may be able to schedule an appointment with you. Problem reports can be left on the Helpdesk voice mail (510-642-7777) or emailed to help@eecs during the campus closure period, but staff may not receive or reply to these messages until January 3.

Requests for IRIS network support or new IRIS accounts that are received after 5pm December 21 may not be processed until January 3, 2022.

During the break, Instructional labs will be locked, but the main servers will remain online (for details, see the Instructional website). Instructional support staff will occasionally monitor inst@eecs email over the break. Please be aware, though, that staff may not be able to respond or reply to messages until January 3.

Computing support staff will be monitoring their email when possible, so please use standard email addresses to report any urgent problems. As a reminder:

Instructional Computing Environment: inst@eecs

Research / Staff Computing Environment: help@eecs

Information regarding campus IT closures is available here: https://technology.berkeley.edu/news/reduced-it-support-winter-holidays-and-curtailment

Happy Holidays!