About us
BayLISA is the premiere system administration user group in Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area. Founded in the very early 90s after the fourth Large Installation System Administration (LISA) conference, BayLISA has supported and educated systems, network, storage, virtualization, and other technology professionals in the Bay Area for over 30 years.
We use Meetup to coordinate meeting attendance, announcements, and reminders. We have our official organizational presence on the web, including links to membership, sponsorship, and mailing lists, at www.baylisa.org.
Our legacy description:
One way to put it is that there are many user groups, but we are the sysadmins group. BayLISA includes system and network administrators across a range of skill levels. BayLISA meets monthly to discuss topics of interest to administrators and managers of sites supporting more than 100 users and/or computers. The meetings are free and open to the public.
BayLISA grew out of an after-hours discussion among attendees of the USENIX LISA IV conference. The idea was to provide a forum for Sysadmin professionals in the San Francisco Bay area to get together and exchange ideas, hear speakers address topics of interest and most importantly, socialize.
BayLISA stands for: Bay Area Large Installation System Administrators
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Upcoming events
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Securing NFS on Linux: Introducing RPC-with-TLS
Koll Oakmead Park, 3350 Scott Blvd Building 54, 3350 Scott Blvd Building 54, Santa Clara, CA, USNote the date change for September!...
With SNIA's SNIA Developer Conference (SDC) occurring Sept. 28-30, and with September's speaker availability during this time, September's meeting will actually be held on Thursday, October 1, 2026.
Abstract:
In 2014 the IETF published a document entitled "Pervasive Monitoring Is an Attack" [RFC7258], which recognized that unauthorized observation of network traffic had become widespread and was a subversive threat to all who make use of the Internet at large.NFS, the Internet standard file system protocol, has supported the GSS Kerberos privacy service for decades. However, Kerberos is challenging to deploy and exacts a performance tax that is onerous. Enter RPC-with-TLS, specified by RFC 9289.
Chuck will introduce the concepts and rationale, and answer questions about the Linux implementation. This is not a how-to, but rather a walk through of the components, motivation, and coming features for this new on-the-wire authentication and encryption mechanism.
Speaker Bio:
I'm a Linux kernel maintainer specializing in network file systems and high-performance storage protocols, with deep expertise in NFS and RDMA. My work focuses on the low-level infrastructure that enterprise and cloud storage depends on--from kernel implementation to published standards.Timing:
7:00--7:45 Social Session
7:45--8:00 Announcements & Introductions
8:00-ish Presentation4 attendees
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