Technical Sessions    Wednesday, Nov. 10 | Thursday, Nov. 11 | Friday, Nov. 12 | All in one file Friday, November 12     9:00am - 10:30am REFEREED PAPERS Room 6A Network Security Session Chair: Doug Hughes, Auburn University Snort - Lightweight Intrusion Detection for Networks Martin Roesch, Stanford Telecommunications, Inc. Internet Routing and DNS Voodoo in the Enterprise D. Brian Larkins, Lucent Technologies Moat: A Virtual Private Network Appliance and Services Platform John S. Denker and Steven M. Bellovin, AT&T Laboratories; Hugh Daniel, FreeS/WAN Project; Nancy L. Mintz, Tom Killian, and Mark A. Plotnick, AT&T Laboratories INVITED TALKS Room 6B NT Without Domain Controllers Chris Stradtman, SYSNET Inc. Four people set up and support 50+ NT 4.0 client sites using an NT domain served by SAMBA on a Linux box. Result: Low cost, low on-site support time, reasonable remote management. Providing Reliable NT Desktop Services by Avoiding NT Server Thomas A. Limoncelli, Lucent Technologies/Bell Labs How does Bell Labs integrate NT and UNIX? We use open protocols to build a rich and reliable user environment. We'll give you the technical underpinnings--and how to sell the idea to management. PRACTICUM Room 6C University Issues Panel William Annis, University of Wisconsin David Brumley, Stanford University Robyn Landers, University of Waterloo Kathy Penn, University of Maryland Moderator: Jon Finke, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Presentation slides In this highly interactive session, a panel of university sysadmins and the audience will discuss problems common to the realm of academia. 10:30am - 11:00am   Break 11:00am - 12:30pm REFEREED PAPERS Room 6A Win a WiP! Session Chair: Peg Schafer, Harvard University Short, pithy, and fun, Work in Progress reports introduce interesting new or on-going work. Fast paced and spontanious, the WiPs feature new ideas or novel solutions to old problems. The number of presenters is limited, so reserve your WiPs slot by sending a note to lisawips@usenix.org. Work in Progress reports are generally five-minute presentations; really interesting work can get more air time. INVITED TALKS Room 6B Managing Your Network(s): Corporate Mergers & Acquisitions, or, You Got Your Chocolate in My Peanut Butter Eliot Lear, Cisco Systems Is your company growing by purchasing other companies or by being purchased? What do you need to do to your network to prepare for a merger? What do you need to do to complete a merger? What tools will help you? We'll discuss routing systems, addressing, firewalls, and network management tools and processes. And of course there will be war stories! PRACTICUM Room 6C Results! Summaries of the Topic Workshops (held earlier in the week), the Terminal Room InstallFest, Day in the Life of a SysAdmin, and the salary survey. 12:30pm - 2:00pm   Lunch (on your own) 2:00pm - 3:30pm REFEREED PAPERS Room 6A Installations Session Chair: Evi Nemeth, University of Colorado and Cooperative Ass'n for Internet Data Analysis Automated Installation of Linux Systems Using YaST Dirk Hohndel and Fabian Herschel, SuSE Rhein/Main AG Enterprise Rollouts with Jumpstart Jason Heiss, Collective Technologies Automated Client-side Integration of Distributed Application Servers Conrad E. Kimball, Vincent D. Skahan, Jr., and David J. Kasik, The Boeing Company; Roger L. Droz, Analysts International INVITED TALKS Room 6B PRACTICUM   State of the Art in Internet Measurement and Data Analysis: Topology, Workload, Performance and Routing Statistics kc claffy, cooperative association for internet data analysis This talk discusses the collection, analysis, and visualization of four forms of Internet traffic data. Topology data describe network link infrastructure at a variety of protocol layers. Workload measurements involve the collection of traffic information from a point within a network. Performance measurements involve the introduction of traffic into the network in order to monitor delay between specific end-points. Routing data includes data from Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing tables, which reflect the transit relationships between individual Autonomous Systems (ASes) at a given point in time. The talk describes the role of each measurement area in understanding Internet behavior and evolution; offers state-of-the-art analysis examples; outlines current research priorities; and describes obstacles to making progress in each area. 3:30pm - 4:00pm   Break 4:00pm - 5:30pm Win, Place, or Show? The New LISA Game Show, with your host, Rob Kolstad Join Rob and the LISA gang for the revival of one of your favorite TV shows--the way sysadmins do it! Thursday Technical Sessions