Wi-Fi and VPN configuration
Below you find the recommended configuration for Wi-Fi (WiFi / Wireless / WLAN) and VPN (Virtual Private Network) for members of the D-MATH.
Wi-Fi
General information
- The following settings are valid for all members of D-MATH (incl. PhD-Students).
- The username to be used is: <your-eth-username>@math-guest.ethz.ch.
- The Wi-Fi SSIDs to be used are eduroam, eth or eth-5.
- You have to use the Wi-Fi/VPN password and not the LDAP or Active Directory (AD) password.
IMPORTANT: if you are not in the mail building (HG) you may also need to start the VPN (see below) to access some D-MATH resources.
Settings
In most cases, the following three entries are sufficient:
SSID: eth
Username: <your-eth-username>@math-guest.ethz.ch
Password: <your Wi-Fi/VPN password>
On some devices you may also need these settings
Security: wpa-eap (WPA & WPA2 Enterprise)
Authentication: PEAP (Protected EAP)
CA Certificate: No CA certificate is required
Inner Authentication: MSCHAPv2
Eduroam installation wizard
You can download an eduroam wizard for the most popular devices:
https://www.eduroam.org/about/connect-yourself
VPN for D-MATH users
General information
- The following settings are valid for all users that have a valid D-MATH account (actually all members of D-MATH and some more).
- We prefer the use of the Cisco Anyconnect Client which can be installed via the standard App Store on your device or via https://sslvpn.ethz.ch.
- On Linux we suggest to use the openconnect client (NetworkManager-openconnect).
Settings
In most cases, the following entries are sufficient:
VPN Host: sslvpn.ethz.ch/math-guest
Username: <your-eth-username>@math-guest.ethz.ch
Password: <your Wi-Fi/VPN password>
Password: <code from you authenticator app>MacOS VPN configuration
Further information
Please note: The variants student-net, staff-net and “unit-net” for business equipment are mentioned in the documentation of our central IT services. Only the variant staff-net is important for us unless you are informed separately by us.
- You’ll find further information on our ISG D-MATH Blog about working with computers at the D-MATH.
- Detailed information about the services provided by IT Services of ETH Zurich can be found on the following webpage: IT Service catalogue
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Unfortunately, the link to “ETH VPN with unmanaged Linux Devices” doesn’t work. Would it please be possible to provide a guide on how to connect to the VPN on Linux devices?
Hi Maros,
Apologies, that link does indeed no longer exist. I’ll fix the post asap. But in the meantime, unmanaged linux clients can just use the client offered by https://sslvpn.ethz.ch.
We just prefer openconnect because it’s open source.
Addendum, you can use openconnect as well by using the following parameters:
sudo openconnect \
–no-external-auth \
–useragent AnyConnect \
–user @math-guest.ethz.ch \
sslvpn.ethz.ch/math-guest