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We do have a comment in on the helpdesk, so hopefully they'll get to that.

On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Troy Murray <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Gary,
>
> Valid point, specifically about missing the new IP ranges that are being
> used after the upgrade.
>
> Since I'm not positive those in charge of the VPN are on this list and
> you're the front-runner on this subject would you mind finding out from the
> help desk if additional ranges were added and sharing that with us?  At
> least that'd save the help desk from multiple phone calls for the same
> question.
>
> Troy Murray
> Information Technologist II
> Michigan State University, Department of Medicine
> 1355 Bogue St, Life Science B-136D
> East Lansing, MI 48824
> (e) [log in to unmask]  (p) 517-432-2760  (f) 517-355-7254
>
> On May 31, 2013, at 10:33 AM, Gary Schrock <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Ok folks, for those of you that might use a firewall to help restrict
> things to ip addresses that the MSU vpn assigns, one thing that IT
> Services didn't tell us is that they've added at least the 35.12.76.X
> range of ip's to the service when they did this update.  No idea if
> they've added any others, since their documentation still lists 72 to
> 75 as the range that the ip's are assigned from.
>
> I've got to be honest, personally I think it's bad enough that the
> intended notice period was only 1 week before this change (except for
> the slipup where they accidentally sent out an email that wasn't
> supposed to go out), but to not include that there were changes in the
> ip address range as part of that notice is very disappointing.  Isn't
> the whole point of the advance notice to make sure we're ready to be
> able to handle the changes?
>
> Gary