MVMRUG April 26, 2002 Meeting

Our 2002 SPRING MVMRUG MEETING was held in Columbus, Ohio, the home of the Ohio State Buckeyes and the Ohio state capitol.

NiSource hosted a delicious continental breakfast and we ate our lunch in the cafeteria. Additional beverages and cookies were served in the afternoon during speaker presentation. It was a GREAT meeting, 36 people were in attendance and the we had very positive feedback on the meeting critique sheets indicating that the meeting was both enjoyable and informative. But, we must apologize to everyone for running over time. We'll correct that situation in future meetings. There was just so much information that we wanted to fit into the day... (sigh)

Location: NiSource, Columbus, Ohio

NiSource (formerly Columbia Energy Group Service Corporation), is located at 1600 Dublin Road, Columbus, Ohio 43215 at the intersection of Dublin Road and Fifth Avenue. The accommodations were quite nice and a very special thank you is extended to NiSource for their hospitality.

Thursday Night Dinner & Social

The Fish Market hosted our Thursday night dinner and social. Al Tokarsky, who is one of the original founders of MVMRUG, and his wife joined us for dinner. It was a GREAT evening, socializing with old friends and enjoying the delicious food.

Agenda:

Internationally known speakers presented on the following topics:

 
       A.  Linux on S/390:
           The Beginnings of the Dream Machine
           Scott Courtney, Sine Nomine Associates
 
       B.  VM TCP/IP Routing - Part 1
           Alan Altmark, IBM
 
       C.  VM TCP/IP Routing - Part 2
           Alan Altmark, IBM
 
       D.  Connecting to Linux for S/390
           Alan Altmark, IBM
 
       E.  Building a Linux Firewall with IPTABLES
           Scott Courtney, Sine Nomine Associates
 
       F.  FREE-FOR-ALL
           During this regularly scheduled session, our assembled VM
           gurus answered your VM (or other) applicable questions
 

For additional information and the abstracts, check out our detailed agenda .

A warm welcome to the following first time attendees:

• Debby Abrams, GE Global Computer Operations
• Tim Allen, GE Global Computer Operationsa
• Alan Altmark, IBM
• Chris Chesser, Xtek, Inc.
• Frank Darrah, Shaner Consultants
• Alex Dukat, NiSource
• Tom Erwin, Lexis Nexis
• Tom Geyer, The Timken Company
• Steve Grecni, GE InterBusiness Operations
• Steve Griffen, IBM
• Andy Grimm, Lexis Nexis
• Clyde Harris, IBM
• Ned Hune, Shaner Consultants
• Jack Jenkins, CA
• Vikki Lethbridge, CA
• Michael Love, GE Global Computer Operations
• Mindy McDaniel, CA
• Rick Mitchell, NiSource
• Mark Osbourne, Lexis Nexis
• John Orem, NiSource
• Yolanda Reyes, Lafayette Life Insurance
• B. Sariwatta, NiSource
• Andy Tomcho, GE InterBusiness Operations
• Tom Waechter, The Timken Company
• Tom Williams, GE InterBusiness Operations
• Chris Wentland, GE Global Computer Operations

A special Thank You to each of our speakers: