Les Mikesell wrote:
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 07:03, Rick Bilonick wrote:
Again, a logical solution (to a totally unnecssary problem).
Unfortunately, the university does not allow having more than one
computer on a port. (I don't think they really enforce this from what I
have seen but the data center again would go ballistic even mentioning it.)
Is it just an accident of location that you are dealing with the
data center people rather than the university IT dept? If not,
I'd take the box home and start looking for a more helpful university.
I can understand the data center not wanting unknown boxes on their
LAN, but then that LAN shouldn't be your only choice.
But, for a quick fix: could you set up some kind of VPN for your
inbound connection other than ssh? IPSec, OpenVPN, CIPE, etc.
and shut off all other services? Those would not respond to the
port tests that found your ssh server, but you would need a
matching client wherever you work.
The data center won't consider ANY solution. They won't let me buy my
own port and they won't accomodate me in ANY way. I guess I will either
have to get the department to find me another office or take the machine
home. Needless to say, I haven't found this place to be very accomodating.
Rick B.
