What is the Wildwest Network Zone?
The wildwest network zone is a wired network sitting outside the research network zone but within the university network. The wildwest network is intended for use by machines that are running high-risk software (likely to be hacked or has many security holes, or where the user wants many ports open and is not happy with the firewall rules on the research network. Machines on the wildwest network zone are behind a firewall, but the firewall is mostly operating in pass-through mode and is there Type of connection to the zone • wired – you must be plugged into a network port that is part of the wildwest network zone. Kind of IP addresses • public/routable IP addresses Getting a machine access to the internet • When a machine is plugged into a network port on the wildwest zone it is automatically given a dynamic ip address and given access to the internet. If you wish to have a static ip address (so you can run a service for example), then you must register your MAC address with helpdesk (
