[YLUG] Re: Setting up eduroam wireless on university campus?

[Arthur Clune]

On 22 Oct 2007, at 17:52, Mike Cohler wrote:

> I will probably put a howto up on a web page over the next week in
> case anyone wants to know how to connect using F7. I'll report the
> location when I have done it.

If you are willing, we could add it to the official docs.

> One interesting thing - it seems that I can ssh into a machine within
> the university once connected to eduroam, but I could not ssh into my
> home machine (which is deliberately on a private port number) - so I
> presume there are outgoing firewall blocks from eduroam...

Yes. For obvious reasons - visitors can bring any laptop in and
plug it into eduroam so we need to protect campus from those
potentially (and actually) virus etc infected machines.

You can connect to port 22 outbound......

Arthur