John Mann's home page

I work for Communications and Network Services, IT Facilities, Monash University.

My work interests include

World Wide Web
Electronic mail
Directory services
Network infrastructure services (DNS, BOOTP, NTP, authentication, routing, security, ...)
Network monitoring and management
Perl, DCL
AlphaStations / DECstations / ...

Document on Network Host Configuration Management.
Monash Staff Directory Service. See my suggestions (Monash only).
New Electronic Mail service. Including a document on how Email works, and my views on the next generation Email system, mail servers and questions.
Monitoring registered hosts and what was seen on the Monash Network.
Monitoring when hosts were last seen connected to the Monash Network, and when hosts changed Ethernet address.
Projects plan (November 1995).
Web Server Upgrade Project, server software, tools, writing pages.
Support netgod / netslave* Essential Network Services machines. See also Provision of Essential Network Services report.
Complete the porting of the addhost network host registration scheme from Ultrix to Digital UNIX.
Network performance improvement. For example a Fast Ethernet Super-Subnets Proposal.
E-mail upgrades to PMDF V5.0 and Name Router V4.1. I'll be adding some instructions on how to generate Pegasus Mail address books to the current scheme for Name-Based Electronic Mail Addressing at Monash University.
Re-work the way that Cisco router traffic statistics are collected and summarised.
Develop a AARNet/Telstra performance monitoring tool
Secure IP
Email to pager
Remote Access.
MBONE reorganisation
TPC-RP stuff

See my Guidelines File for miscellaneous things that don't deserve their own Web page.

John Mann
IT Facilities
Monash University
Wellington Road
Clayton, Victoria 3168
Australia

Phone: +61 3 990 54774
Fax: +61 3 990 59888
Mobile: +61 419 568 470
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John Mann John.Mann_its.monash.edu.au
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