eduroam
What is eduroam?
The eduroam service is intended to provide employees and students of participating institutions with Internet access (usually Wifi) at the locations of all participating organizations.
To do this, you log in with login data from your home institution and you are therefore not dependent on password slips or similar that have to be distributed.
However, eduroam also enables you here at the IPK to obtain Internet access via Wifi for your private devices.
How do I connect?
From 03.04.2023 onwards access will only be possible via certificates from the DFN service "easyroam".
What is a certificate?
A certificate is a file that identifies you to a service, in this case eduroam.
Your IPK credentials are needed once to create the certificate and from then on the certificate handles the login to and only to eduroam.
So if the certificate should fall into the wrong hands, you can use it to log in "only" to eduroam.
For security reasons, a certificate has only a fixed duration, so it must be renewed from time to time.
How long are the certificates valid?
The certificates created during setup are valid for 13 months and you are allowed to actively use 10 concurrent certificates.
According to current knowledge:
- you will be prompted by the easyroam app to re-login on Windows, Android and iOS/iPadOS. This will create and activate new certificates.
- you will no longer have a Wifi connection on Linux and macOS. You will then have to follow the instructions for the respective systems again.
Can't I just use the "ipk" Wifi?
The "ipk" Wifi is to be reserved exclusively for notebooks procured on official business.
Therefore, please switch to the certificate-supported eduroam with your private devices, in order to be able to use the Internet access at the IPK.
Okay, I'm in! What do I have to do now?
Please find attached guides for the most used operating systems.