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About Eduroam

Eduroam is a global co-operative that allows academics visting other institutions to access that institution's wireless network using their home university login. This page describes the eduroam service.

Contents

• What Is It?
• Eduroam Service Status
• Who Can Use Eduroam?
• Where Is Eduroam Available?
• What Else Should I Know?
• How Do I Configure Eduroam?
• More Information

What Is It?

Eduroam is primarily an authentication federation, or simply an exchange of user credentials between academic organisations. By convention each participating organisation advertises a wireless network, 'eduroam', that visitors log on to. The service works by sending login requests back to the home institution. If the home institution accepts the login, the user is allowed on to the visited institution's network.

This means that an ANU user logging on to eduroam at say USYD will be logged onto the USYD network and not the ANU wireless network.

From the ANU point of view, the eduroam service is made up of two components:

• Inbound: ANU users logging into an eduroam wireless network while at another institution
• Outbound: Academic visitors logging into the eduroam wireless network while at ANU

Eduroam Service Status

The inbound service is now in production at ANU (as at 15th October 2009).

The outbound service is now in production at ANU (as at 23rd October 2009).

NOTE: Academic visitors whose home institution does not participate in eduroam require an affiliate ID or conference login to access ANU wireless networks (see guests).

Who Can Use Eduroam?

All ANU staff and students can be eduroam users (when at a participating institution).

NOTE: ANU people should not attempt to log on to the eduroam network when at ANU - this is provided for visitors.

Where is Eduroam Available?

ANU

At ANU, eduroam is available whereever you find ANU-Access and ANU-Secure

National

Externally, AARNET maintains a page that summarises which Australian institutions participate in eduroam: AARNET Eduroam Wiki.

NEW: You can also download the a Google Earth file that maps these institutions: Google Earth KML.

Global

Eduroam is also widely deployed in European institutions as well as Canada and a few APAN countries. See the Main Eduroam Site for a full list.

What Else Should I Know?

Access Policies

After authentication, ANU plays no further role in an eduroam connection, so what network resources are available is totally up to the remote institution.

Usually browsing, mail etc are permitted, as well as opening a VPN connection to your home institution. Some institutions allow all traffic, but many block outbound mail (SMTP) for example. Refer to the remote institution's IT support if you are having difficulties after connecting.

Key Points

1. ANU users should NOT log on to the eduroam network while at ANU and should continue to use ANU-Secure when at ANU (the eduroam network will not be visible at ANU until the outbound service is in production)
2. eduroam requires a domain @anu.edu.au to be appended to the username, 'u4311362@anu.edu.au' not 'u4311362'. This is noted in the install guides.
3. A VPN connection (on top of eduroam) is still required to access ANU services that are not open to the internet

How Do I Configure Eduroam?

Eduroam uses identical technology to ANU-Secure so the configuration process is very similar.

Mac/iPhone users can fairly easily configure their machine for eduroam when off-site. However we recommend that they read the install guide before leaving ANU.

Windows users will need access to or already have configured ANU-Secure with the new installer. As advised previously the installer includes an eduroam configuration.

The main eduroam install guide is located here: wireless.anu.edu.au/eduroam.html.

More Information

Please head back to the main Wireless Page for more information wireless services at ANU.