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Unscheduled Wireless Outage, HMMB and Sibley Auditorium

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We are currently experiencing an unscheduled wireless outage in some locations in the Hearst Memorial Mining Building, as well as in the Sibley Auditorium in the Bechtel Engineering Center. The outage is due to a campus zone router crash, and many campus-managed wired and wireless networks are also affected.

IST/Telecom is working to restore service and we will update this news item when service has been restored. We apologize for any issues caused by this interruption.
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gateway.EECS.Berkeley.EDU no longer supports SSL v3

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The configuration on gateway.EECS.Berkeley.EDU
was updated (October 19, 2014) to no longer allow
usage of the SSL v3.0 protocol for authenticated
outging smtp service.

If you experience issues using gateway.EECS.Berkeley.EDU
for outging smtp service, please contact the IRIS Helpesk
(help@eecs, 395 Cory M-F 9:30am-5pm, 642-7777) for assistance

See
for
more information about the “SSL 3.0 Protocol Vulnerability and POODLE Attack.”

apps.eecs, wiki.eecs downtime Friday 8am

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The server hosting apps.eecs.berkeley,edu, wik.eecs.berkeley.edu and some other project websites[*] will be rebooted Friday, October 17th 2014 between 8am and 9am. Total downtime should be around 5 to 10 minutes.

This server is experiencing poor network performance. This reboot will be to reconfigure the virtual machine with a new network driver which has shown significantly better performance in our testing. Current bandwith to our NFS server is lmited to around 1.2 MB/s. In testing with the new driver, we are getting around 25 MB/s.

As usual, please send any questions or comments to the IRIS helpdesk at help@eecs.berkeley.edu.

[*] The full list of affected websites is:

  • bjc.berkeley.edu
  • bsim.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • csillustrated.berkeley.edu
  • leed.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • rt.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • snap.berkeley.edu
  • wiki.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • www-device.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • www-video.eecs.berkeley.edu

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Scheduled Outage: PPCS/ETS/GAC/Cobalt Networks in Cory Hall

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On Thursday, October 16th, between 6 and 7 AM, IST will be performing a scheduled upgrade on their switch in Cory Hall. This upgrade will result in an outage for the following networks:

– PPCS (169.229.210.0/26, 128.32.211.0/27)
– ETS / General Assignment Classrooms (169.229.246.0/24, 169.229.250.128/27)
– UCPD Cobalt Network (10.254.244.0/24)

For updates, please see ucbsystems.org, CMR# 3286. Please direct any questions or concerns to Kevin Wong at IST-Telecom: kwong@ack.berkeley.edu.
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Updated Synopsys Licensing

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The new licenses for Synopsys tools (such as Sentaurus WorkBench), effective September 25, 2014, are limited to working with new versions of the tools — generally those with a 2014 release date. You may need to update your PATH to include the newer versions.

The following package release versions are included in the current licensing. These are installed on Instructional systems, and most are available on the department’s /usr/eesww for machines that mount it.

For Synopsys licensing, please note that the license server has changed. See /usr/eesww/synopsys/README for details.

CustomExplorer                  (customexp_vJ-2014.09)
HSPICE                          (hspice_vJ-2014.09)
Hercules                        (hercules_vB-2008.09-SP5)
Raphael                         (raphael_vJ-2014.09)
Saber                           (saber_vI-2013.12)
StarRC                          (starrc_vJ-2014.06-SP2)
Synplify FPGA                   (s_fpga_vJ-2014.09)
TCAD Sentaurus                  (tcad_sentaurus_vJ-2014.09)
TCAD Sentaurus PCM Studio       (sentaurus_pcm_vJ-2014.06)
VCS MX                          (vcs_mx_vI-2014.03-SP1)
VCS VCSi                        (vcs_vI-2014.03-SP1)
VCS Verification Library        (vcs_verif_vJ-2014.06-SP1)

If you need help with configuring these changes, feel free to email help@eecs. It would be useful to provide the output from the following commands:

which swb
echo $LM_LICENSE_FILE
echo $SHELL

Brief Scheduled Outage for EECS Wireless

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There will be a brief scheduled outage of all EECS wireless networks on this Friday, September 19th, in order to perform a minor configuration change which will require a reboot of the wireless controllers. The maintenance will begin at 6:30AM and is expected to be complete by 7AM.

This is scheduled to coincide with a related maintenance being performed by IST on their wireless controllers, which serve the rest of campus. Information on the IST scheduled outage can be found at ucbsystems.org, CMR #3214.

This outage will affect all wireless networks (including AirBears) in all EECS locations: Soda, Cory, Sutardja Dai, and Blum Halls, as well as the Calvin Lab and the BWRC, and some areas of the Hearst Memorial Mining Building.

For questions, concerns, or comments, please contact help@eecs.berkeley.edu.

Thanks,
IRIS Network Group
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