Les Mikesell wrote:
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 07:03, Rick Bilonick wrote: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.
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.
Rick B.
My sympathies.
Get a couple of more computers and tie them together in a beowulf cluster which is great for number crunching. When they ask about Windows, get them to source you a beowulf cluster package that uses windows with the same specs.
beowulf.org
I would also be writing to the department head that you work under about your problems.
How do they feel about wireless in your university? Get a wireless port off of the other network.
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