Does anyone know what range of IP addresses TWC uses in Raleigh. I need to know so I can tell my sysadmin at work what ranges of IP addresses the firewall should allow to make SSH requests so I can see interact with my workstations from home.

3/19/2009 12:04:56 PM

you want to let all of raleigh through your corporate firewall?

3/19/2009 12:11:24 PM

Do you have any suggestions that I might be able to get my sysadmin to implement? Right now our firewall denies everything from an external IP address. It annoying if I want to monitor the status of my machines from home.

3/19/2009 12:31:50 PM

logmein?

3/19/2009 12:33:58 PM

I don't think my cable modem has gotten a new IP address in months.

I'd think you could just have him forward the one you have now, and using something like dyndns.org to change it if it changes.

3/19/2009 12:44:56 PM

another vote for logmein. it's free and a hell of a lot easier than trying to get a sysadmin to do anything

3/19/2009 12:45:58 PM

Does logmein work for linux?

3/19/2009 1:04:21 PM

[yes]

get hamachi

3/19/2009 1:13:25 PM

I just started using LogMeIn Hamachi on my 2 desktops at my apartment and on my laptop. Works great to keep up with files. Next step, share my Thunderbird profile folder between the systems to keep mail synched. It's that or switch everything to gmail.

Also, It seems to me that most TWC ip address are basically static. I've had the same one for over a year.

[Edited on March 19, 2009 at 1:14 PM. Reason : twc]

3/19/2009 1:13:48 PM

this is what vpn is for.

3/19/2009 2:58:01 PM

^ My thoughts exactly. How big is your company? Ours is maybe 80, and we have a fully capable vpn system to remote desktop and secure connections to clients, remote employees, and other vendors.

3/19/2009 3:15:28 PM

My sysadmin won't set up a VPN. It would be nice, but it's not going to happen. I just need the firewall to let through an SSH request from my house.

3/19/2009 6:34:59 PM

use hamachi!

Quote :

"My sysadmin won't set up a VPN."

your sysadmin sounds like a complete dick. if i were you, i'd go above his head if there's a legitimate business reason for you having remote access. VPN access is one of those things that's pretty much expected now.

3/19/2009 6:43:14 PM

I've had maybe 2 or 3 IP addresses in 2 years with my cable provider. You're on DHCP, but as someone stated earlier, it won't be that much of an annoyance to give him the entire mask.

3/19/2009 6:44:15 PM

Yeah just give him the whole address so you don't let all of f'in Raleigh though. It'll be months before it changes if not longer.

3/19/2009 8:34:20 PM

^^^ Our sysadmin works for free in his spare time as a kindness. He's very good, but also very busy. I'm part of an atmospheric research group and we don't have any dedicated IT staff. Hell, our whole network consists of a firewall, a profile server, and about 60 TB of network accessible storage spread across 3 machines. Everything else is just individual use workstations for data analysis. He'd set up a VPN if I pressured him, but because he works in his free time, any task that takes longer than 5 minutes to do will take a few weeks to get to. I'd do such things myself, but educational privacy laws don't allow me to have the root passwords needed.

3/19/2009 9:31:47 PM

opening the network to all of raleigh is a terrible idea.

HAMACHI.

3/19/2009 9:38:50 PM

Here is the range for the Business Class IP's in the NC RR network.

24.25.23.0-24.25.23.255
24.172.0.0 - 24.172.255.255

3/20/2009 12:57:44 PM

lol why the one /24?

3/20/2009 1:03:55 PM

^^ The residential IP address space is different.

3/20/2009 1:05:10 PM

Quote :

"we don't have any dedicated IT staff"

This isn't dogging on you since I'm sure you don't have any control over this, but jeez. I encounter dozens of companies a day in a similar situation. They keep sensitive data on their servers, they expect their apps to have 100% uptime, their entire business would grind to a halt if their systems went down and yet they don't see the need for dedicated IT professionals.

But yeah, anyway. Logmein.

3/20/2009 2:08:14 PM

^ Research grants don't pay for support staff and the NCSU departmental IT support is a mix of incompetent and barely existent. This is basically a DIY operation.

3/20/2009 3:25:20 PM