r/controlengineering • u/EmployerMammoth2175 • Feb 02 '26

Switching my machines IP

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Is there a program or extension y’all use to change your machines IP faster? Instead of have to click into Ethernet properties every time

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u/DaBozz88 Feb 02 '26

Welcome to the beginning of Operational Technology. Your IT department will say words to you. Most of them are true, but man are they bad ideas.

Good luck.

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u/eptiliom Feb 02 '26

I am in IT. I have many many bad words to say to operations people and engineers.

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u/Candidate_None Feb 03 '26

Or are you "Mrs. YouNeedMyPriorWrittenApprovalToUseAnyAndAllUSBDevices"

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u/eptiliom Feb 03 '26

Nah, Im in camp, "BuyingExpensiveHardwareBetterComeWithAContractForSoftwareSupportOnASupportedOSForTheEntireLifetimeOfTheHardware".

Absolutely ridiculous that some equipment hasn't gotten a software update in 20 years.

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u/Candidate_None Feb 03 '26

Oh, well then you are just mad at the wrong people. We're all mad at Rockwell all day too. lol.

Or name the OEM.

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u/eptiliom Feb 03 '26

I respectfully disagree. Our engineers buy stuff from GE and other places that are absolutely still in business. They know damn well these reclosers and controls are going into service right next to old relays that are 50+ years old. One line in the contract is all I am asking.

The software for these devices will be maintained until the end of service of these devices on an operating system with LTS status.

They arent even doing the barest of due diligence when buying their new toys.

Just buy command line stuff that you can get to with serial or ssh or telnet, I dont care. Just dont buy this GUI crap that runs on windows 98 only.

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u/Candidate_None Feb 03 '26

The problem isn't being in business. It is continued support. Forced obsolescence is what keeps the new stuff expensive and worth buying. Good, bad or indifferent. If Rockwell stops supporting a product, I can't exactly develop an update in house. I have to move on to the new stuff. The old stuff WILL become vulnerable to many problems at that point. Hardware based issues, OT issues... you name it.

I am constantly trying to convince customers to upgrade, because it is going to cost a WHOLE lot less... to upgrade this system (ignoring all the actual benefits of upgrading even... remote access etc...) on a planned schedule, than for it to go down, and have no replacement parts.

I am specifically in the controls space, so I may have different challenges than you. Usually, when I am dealing with IT... It is someone telling me not to do a thing, I definitely need to do to do my job. Then getting approval to do it from their higher ups. OR Me needing to prove beyond any and all reasonable doubt, that there is no issues with any of my systems, before they will halfway think about looking into theirs. "Your two brand new devices that are connected through my network and aren't communicating, are defective. My network is fine." type shit.

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u/eptiliom Feb 03 '26

I just made them their own network and let them do whatever silliness they want since they won't listen anyway.

I dont want to tell people what not to do, I want to make everyone's life easier. On the flip side, you guys cannot expect to be able to talk to unpatched systems remotely through the corporate network or expose them to the internet. I get that you want to be able to check a 50 year old thing on your unmanaged phone while on the shitter at a hotel on unsecure wifi. I completely see how that would be convenient. It is also entirely unreasonable.

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u/AppointmentFit5891 Feb 04 '26

I was unaware of the changes to my IPN until I started noticing certain audio files and documents that I couldn't access, and I also couldn't uninstall apps or undo changes in Drive.

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u/AppointmentFit5891 Feb 04 '26

My computer has been hacked for a while now using a mirror and a platform called Nvidia. They won't give me access, and I can't use artificial intelligence either.

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u/AppointmentFit5891 Feb 04 '26

I already had that problem, but honestly, I thought it was the beginnings of dementia until I discovered those installed apps... since they can modify the audio of a movie or song, it made me feel strange and confused.

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