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> Hello, Hello again Baird, > > I was in contact with Unidata support (Jeff and Tom) a couple of months ago > trying to get access to the lightning data sets (LDM/IDD). I work in the > Geo department at Brown Univ. and the firewall settings were preventing this > from going through. Yes, we remember :) > > I was able to get an order in to change the firewall settings, and the > holidays put this on hold for a very long time. I got word back in January > that this has been changed now, with the ethernet port I'm plugged into now > operating under the "136 subnet." I'm not exactly sure what this means Probably have better access to the outside world on that sub-net (a guess) > (I've been told that LDM needs access to port 388, and the systems > administrator in the department seems to think this will work?). Yes, the LDM runs by default on port 388 > > My information is below; please let me know if this is correct, or if I need > to take further steps. I have LDM up and running on my system, so I will > wait for a response this afternoon or tomorrow. Sounds good, I will cc you on my message to SUNY-Albany for the feed request. > > Thanks! > Baird Langenbrunner > > > machine name: mm108-lang2.geo.brown.edu > ( IP address: 128.148.136.21 ) > Feedtype request: LIGHTNING (or) FT14 > Jeff Weber Unidata User Support http://www.unidata.ucar.edu Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: TAK-151063 Department: Support IDD Priority: Normal Status: Open