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Heartbeat #12

From: Team #3 (Dalat, Chris, Shadi, Fritz, and Tyler)
Heartbeat Msg: #12

To: ECE470/CSC402 Instructors
To email: net_heartbeat@renoir.csc.ncsu.edu

Subject: Heartbeat #12 From Team 3

Date: 11/22/02

1. Task Status:

a. Done with revision of the methodology drafts, they are now all together and follow the same format.

b. Done with homework #7. Specific parts were done individually. Dalat spent time pulling the paper together while Chris spent time pulling the Appendix and Presentation slides together.

c. About 70-80% of the project is done. We are now at a stand still until we can get results. (See section 5 for more details)

d. Met with Ralph on Friday afternoon to go over some of the testing, but the Cisco 10K had just come in, and he was busy with that. We decided to let them review the drafts and send comments by e-mail. It was also made known that the setup in the lab had not been put together, and might not get to be for this weekend when many of the group members were thinking of running tests.

e. Met on Tuesday with Kumar and Ralph to demo how to run the tools and to briefly go over the project's status.

Below is the schedule file:
[Schedule]

2. Personnel Status:
Dalat Bui - Lead
Chris Brezovec - Vice Lead
K. Fritz Lehr - Webmaster
Shadi Eskama - Member
Tyler Humprey - Member

3. Risk Status:

Below is the risk table:

Rank Now	Rank History	Loss-Causing Event	Likelihood of the Loss-Causing Event Occuring	Estimated Severity (or Loss)	Current Risk
1	1	Very likely, we're not able to get the badges to access the lab on Centennial campus 24/7, which does not give us flexibility to learn about the AC devices and test the test cases (see the problem section for more info.)	0.95	0.65	0.45
2	4	Revising the drafts is getting more technical. Thus we'll have to spend a lot of time "thinking" and reviewing the RFCs, especially at technical sections. Since other classes demand the same amount of work and many of us are under the pressure of finding jobs, this can make the situation become very stressful - hopefully none of us will become crazy by the end of the semester :(	0.45	0.7	0.3
3	3,3,3	Many of us have come to the point in the semester where tests and projects are due. Finding time to get to centenial campus and finish up the project is becoming a problem.	0.4	0.65	0.3
4	2,1,4,3,2	Some ACs such as Redback SMS 10000 and net.com SCREAM are still in the ordering process. They may not be available any time soon.	0.1	0.1	0.1

4. Problem List:

- The setup has still not been put together, and our offer to come in and help has been overlooked or ignored.
- We still do not have any form of lab access unless Ralph or Kumar let us in.
- Lab access after work hours and during weekend is not possible (see section 5 for more details.)

5. Any other issues you wish to report, raise, address, ...

We have exchanged several emails with Kumar and Ralph about the availability of the equipments and lab access after work hours. (We would like to be able to access the lab at night and/or during weekends -- all of us have classes during the day at different time that it is only convenient for us to access the lab during weekend or at night -- so that we can write up the test cases and try them out). Through their replies they cannot let us access the lab at the requested hours. Because of these reasons, they suggest that we will just need to concentrate on writing the methodologies, and then writing the test cases and testing them out will be a bonus. They also indicated that they'll be very happy to talk to the Instructor(s) about this problem. Since we don't have many choices, we will just have to do what they suggest. For now, unless we have new directions from our Instructor, we will just concentrate on writing solid methodologies.

However, we do not see how we can make the methodology very solid without trying out some things on even a Cisco 7200VXR. We have offered to setup this equipment, and have even said that we would work on it during the weekend remotely since there appears to be a shortage of equipment. A meeting with Dr. Vouk is being arranged this evening for Monday afternoon to go over these and other concerns about the project that will quite probably effect how much work we have to do in the next two week and even over Thanksgiving break.

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