Why use a VPN?
The College of Engineering and Technology provides a Virtual Private Network (VPN) Facility. When you connect to the VPN, your computer establishes an encrypted link to CAEDM and becomes part of the college network. There are two ways of connecting to the college VPN. The first method uses PPTP (Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol) and is the recommended way to connect; the second method tunnels a PPTP connection through an L2TP (Layer-two Tunneling Protocol) connection. This document gives instruction on how to connect using either of these methods. For these instructions, depending on the way your computer is set up, you may need to log in as a user with administrative privileges.
Connecting to a VPN
To create a regular PPTP connection:
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Open the New Connection Wizard (usually by double-clicking on the Networking control panel, then double-clicking “Make New Connection”).
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Specify a new VPN connection to fortress.et.byu.edu.
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Right-click on the new connection and choose “Properties.”
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Using the Networking tab of the Properties dialogue box, configure the VPN connection to be a PPTP connection, and (optionally, for security) disable File and Printer Sharing.
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Set the DNS server for this connection to be 128.187.48.2 and the WINS servers to be 10.8.120.176 and 10.8.120.177.
- Additional more detailed help can be found here.
- You cannot currently use L2TP on Windows 7
Using RGS through VPN
Once the VPN is connected, download the RGS/SAM client. Instructions are found here.