What is the Wireless Network Zone?
The wireless network zone is an insecure network (non-encrypted) which machines with wireless cards can attach to from anywhere within range of one of our wireless access points. The wireless network zone sits within our instructional network zone but is behind a firewall. It is intended for use by machines that are only temporarily on the network and do not wish to plug into a wired network. Machines on the wireless network zone have all their external packets routed through a firewall which acts as a DHCP server and authentication server for the zone. Type of connection to the zone • wireless – you must have a wireless card and connect to “Computing Science”. You must also authenticate with a registered CCID via SSH to 10.0.0.1 if you wish to have access to the internet. Kind of IP addresses • public IP addresses but only dynamic. Getting a machine access to the internet • To get access from the wireless network zone to an external network you must authenticate from the machine via s
