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When a user visits an eduroam-capable institution her credentials will be checked against her home institution through a federation of authentication servers. If the user’s home institution validates credentials the user will be granted Internet connectivity in the visited institution.
You can learn more about eduroam at https://www.eduroam.us/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduroam and https://www.eduroam.org/.
SLAC is offering the eduroam service site wide through the wireless network, at no cost for users. SLAC Today announcement
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- You are a visitor from an eduroam enabled institution
- Connect to the wireless network called “eduroam”, you will be asked to authenticate in accordance with your institution's eduroam policy. Then, if valid, you will be connected to the eduroam wireless network and given Internet connectivity.
- You are a SLAC employee
- We encourage SLAC
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- employees with a centrally managed device to use the SLAC secure wireless when at SLAC.
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- The Eduroam service is mainly of
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- interest while travelling to another institution.
To use eduroam you can enroll your mobile device in MDM – Mobile device management system. Device The device will then be preconfigured for eduroam and will automatically use a certificate to connect to the eduroam network.
We are working on automatically pushing a suitable eduroam profile to centrally managed devices. In the meantime you can use a SUNet ID as described in the section below.
- You have a SUNet ID (Stanford University account)
- You can connect to eduroam using the full login string like <user>@win.stanford.edu and your SUNet password. You may be asked to validate with Stanford’s radius server certificate. Documentation about this service on Stanford campus is available at bottom of the page https://itservices.stanford.edu/service/wirelessnet/access.
FAQ
- I have two devices connected on SLAC’s eduroam network, can they talk to each other?
No, all user-to-user traffic is prevented. This is a security measure in order to avoid spreading viruses, scanning etc.
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