VPN on MacOSX

When you are not on the campus (i.e. from home or whilst working away) or if you are using a wireless access point, you may still need to access the University's computer network. To do this you will need to setup a VPN connection.

You must be a University of Trento member of staff or student to use the service, as you will need your Unitn username and password.

Open System Preferences → Network , add a new connection (+)

Select the VPN interface and PPTP type:

Configure the new UNITN-VPN connection, use your unitn account name.

Configure the Advanced options.

Configure the proxies:

Configure Authentication Settings:

Insert your Unitn password:

Connect the vpn:

Note:

Send all traffic over VPN connections:

• flagged: all the traffic flow through vpn connection, as well http connections, it's necessary to configure the web browser with Automatic Proxy Configuration URL –> http://proxypac.unitn.it
• not flagged: only traffic towards private ip flow through vpn, http connection flow through the normal internet connection. It's not necessary to setup proxy connection in the web browser.