Hello
I have searched far and wide but I could not find anything anywhere on this so I think this may be thread-worthy. I am currently in France at a University on exchange with a friend of mine (we are from the UK) and I have come across something I have never seen before nor do I know how to resolve.
The ethernet ports across the entire campus including the halls all host multiple networks via one port. I connect to the port and I get one connection, and my friend connects to get a second connection through the same port, and a third person connected via the same port to get yet another connection. I think there may be 4 connections being hosted through this in total.
Now, the university have 3 main streams of internet: 1 for Staff/postgrad, 1 for students, 1 for exchange students. The fourth connection type is intranet with only access to a portal. The purpose of the portal is to submit your mac address for wireless and ethernet to be assigned an IP address for both.
The issue we are having is my friend needs to connect to the exchange students connection for actual internet access, but the ethernet cable will only connect her to the portal (all her details have been submitted) and I have no idea how to resolve this. I have cycled through every window in the networking control panel and usually issues like this I can resolve within a couple of hours but I have absolutely no idea how to identify other networks that are available through ethernet.
Can anybody help? She needs the connection set up asap because she needs access to the local servers for her research.
Thanks
Ravi
I have searched far and wide but I could not find anything anywhere on this so I think this may be thread-worthy. I am currently in France at a University on exchange with a friend of mine (we are from the UK) and I have come across something I have never seen before nor do I know how to resolve.
The ethernet ports across the entire campus including the halls all host multiple networks via one port. I connect to the port and I get one connection, and my friend connects to get a second connection through the same port, and a third person connected via the same port to get yet another connection. I think there may be 4 connections being hosted through this in total.
Now, the university have 3 main streams of internet: 1 for Staff/postgrad, 1 for students, 1 for exchange students. The fourth connection type is intranet with only access to a portal. The purpose of the portal is to submit your mac address for wireless and ethernet to be assigned an IP address for both.
The issue we are having is my friend needs to connect to the exchange students connection for actual internet access, but the ethernet cable will only connect her to the portal (all her details have been submitted) and I have no idea how to resolve this. I have cycled through every window in the networking control panel and usually issues like this I can resolve within a couple of hours but I have absolutely no idea how to identify other networks that are available through ethernet.
Can anybody help? She needs the connection set up asap because she needs access to the local servers for her research.
Thanks
Ravi