The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting on Tuesday, November 8. The meeting topic for this month is as follows:

Migrating to IPv6

This is your chance to try out IPv6 without having to set up a tunnel. Presenter Mark Jenkins will bring a wireless access point and provide auto-discoverable, IPv6-only access to everyone at the meeting, with real public addresses. (He'll use a tunnel for upstream). So, bring your laptops and other portables... the more platforms the merrier!

After seeing who is and isn't able to use the connection, and what's actually out there in the cold world of IPv6-only addresses, Mark will present some basic theory, show how to do static configuration on GNU/Linux, and reflect on how the transition to IPv6 could play out.

Time permitting, the challenge of witting reverse DNS entries with the aid of the $ORIGIN keyword in BIND will be demonstrated, and the ease of configuring the route advertisement daemon in use for the demonstration shown.

Plus, this month's meeting is the MUUG annual general meeting, which includes the election of the MUUG board of directors for the 2011-2012 year, as well as a vote on a special resolution to amend the MUUG by-laws. (Members: Check your newsletter for details.)

The group holds its general meetings at 7:30pm on the second Tuesday of every month from September to June. (There are no meetings in July and August.) Meetings are open to the general public; you don't have to be a MUUG member to attend.

********************************************************************** Please note our meeting location: The IBM offices, at 400 Ellice Ave. (between Edmonton and Kennedy). When you arrive, you will have to sign in at the reception desk, and then wait for someone to take you (in groups) to the meeting room. Please try to arrive by about 7:15pm, so the meeting can start promptly at 7:30pm. Don't be late, or you may not get in. (But don't come too early either, since security may not be there to let you in before 7:15 or so.) Non-members may be required to show photo ID at the security desk.

Limited parking is available for free on the street, either on Ellice Ave. or on some of the intersecting streets. Indoor parking is also available nearby, at Portage Place, for $5.00 for the evening. Bicycle parking is available in a bike rack under video surveillance located behind the building on Webb Place. **********************************************************************

For more information about MUUG, and its monthly meetings, check out their Web server:

http://www.muug.mb.ca/

Help us promote this month's meeting, by putting this poster up on your workplace bulletin board or other suitable public message board:

http://www.muug.mb.ca/meetings/MUUGmeeting.pdf