Connecting to the IRTF Networks


1. Introduction

RJ45 connections are available for IRTF observers & guests at HP and the summit.

Contact the telescope staff for your connection on the summit. To avoid conflicts with other observing groups, contact the staff before attempting to connect your computers to the IRTF network.

Please check with IRTF support astronomers or computer people before adopting a guest IP, to make sure it isn't already in use.

GigabitEthernet connections are available at HP (in the offices with the workstations "wien" and "helmholtz") and the summit (ask the telescope operator).

2. Contact Information:

  1. For more information on available hardware connections, please contact:

    Darryl Watanabe, IRTF Observatory Manager
    Tel: (808) 974-4210, Fax: (808)974-4212
    e-mail: darrylw@hawaii.edu

  2. For information on network connectivity, please contact:

    Miranda Hawarden-Ogata, IRTF Network Engineer
    Tel: (808) 640-7694, Direct: (808) 640-7694, Fax: (808) 933-0737
    e-mail: hawarden@hawaii.edu

    Charles Lockhart, (emergency) IRTF Software Engineer
    Tel: (808) 932-2383, Fax: (808) 933-0737
    e-mail: clockhart@hawaii.edu

3. TCP/IP configuration for the IRTF subnets are:

          Observatory      Hale Pohaku     Hilo             Manoa

 b'cast   128.171.165.255  128.171.71.255  128.171.110.255  128.171.79.255
 gateway  128.171.165.62   128.171.71.136  128.171.110.129  128.171.79.137
 netmask  255.255.255.0    255.255.255.0   255.255.255.128  255.255.255.0
 DNS      128.171.168.6    128.171.168.6   128.171.168.6    128.171.2.6
 Domain Name ifa.hawaii.edu

4. Available guest IPs are:


  Observatory:

    DHCP provides guest network access. If static IPs are required,
    please contact Miranda.

  Hale Pohaku:

    128.171.71.59   irtfhp4
    128.171.71.60   irtfhp3
    128.171.71.61   irtfhp2
    128.171.71.62   irtfhp1

  Hilo:

    Like at the summit, DHCP provides guest network access.  If
    static IPs are required, please contact Miranda.

  Manoa:

    Contact Miranda.

5. More on Guest IPs

The guest IPs are not assigned. To avoid possible conflicts with another observer, please "ping" the IP you intend to use first, to make sure it is not already in use. You can ping by logging on to one of the IRTF workstations and entering, say,

    /bin/ping 128.171.71.60