Wireless

When you are at Fermilab you may connect your laptop and other devices to one of the labwide wireless networks:

• guest
• eduroam
• fgz

Everyone may connect to the guest network; no registration is required. There is no longer a time limit for use of the guest network; you may use it as long as you are at Fermilab. You will be able to connect to most, if not all, Mu2e resources via the guest network.

If you have and eduroam account from your home institution, you may connect via eduroam wireless network at the lab. You authenticate to eduroam as you do for your home institution. Eduroam is supposed to give you the same access as does the guest network but there is one anecdote of large copies working on guest but failing over eduroam. If you have computing accounts at Fermilab, you can use your services account login (user@services.fnal.gov) to login.

To have full access to all resources at Fermilab you must be authorized to connect to the fgz network. To get authorization for your machine see the Fermilab node registration form; there are two versions of this form, one for equipment own by institutions (Fermilab, your home university of lab ) and one for personally owned equipment. In the "Identifier Type" field, select "Hardware Address" and in the box enter the MAC address of your network interface. If your machine has more than one network interface you should register all of them.

On a scientific linux machine you can learn the MAC address of your network interfaces with the shell command: /sbin/ifconfig. On a MacIntosh use: ifconfig. On a Windows machine open a "Run Command" window and type ipconfig.

You can also read additional information provided by the Fermilab Core Computing Division.