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[Samwell]

Hello everyone

 

I have a problem. I have a computing project that requires some Pi's connecting through the internet. The school's internet is set up in such a way that when you connect via Ethernet, only recognised accounts can join the network. When I connect with my laptop and use a VPN, it works. So what I want to do is have a switch connected to one of the ethernet ports on my laptop, allowing everything connected to communicate on a separate network. Then I want to use the other port on my laptop to tunnel out to my VPN so I can access the internet. My laptop is running Windows 10. I tried using bridge ports and changed the bridge to a static IP separate but I can't get to my VPN doing that. This issue means I can't do my project easily in school and I would speak to the technician but... yeah, said person isn't the best at what they are supposed to do...

 

Thanks for any help

[fjdhdhcyfhf]

i wonder if its as simple as correcting your gateway setting on every pi to go to the correct IP that accesses the internet

[Samwell]

1 minute ago, SCHISCHKA said:

i wonder if its as simple as correcting your gateway setting on every pi to go to the correct IP that accesses the internet

Unfortunately it is not that simple. When connecting to the network via ethernet, you have to log into an account, which I don't access to (my school account doesn't work on that network). A way to bypass that is to connect to my VPN as it bypasses the login, however I need to tunnel more than one device through the VPN and I don't want to add the VPN individually to each device.

[fjdhdhcyfhf]

2 minutes ago, Samwell said:

Unfortunately it is not that simple. When connecting to the network via ethernet, you have to log into an account, which I don't access to (my school account doesn't work on that network). A way to bypass that is to connect to my VPN as it bypasses the login, however I need to tunnel more than one device through the VPN and I don't want to add the VPN individually to each device.

i see. setup a proxy on your laptop?

[Guest]

Haven't really had any experience with the Pi's but are they able to be wirelessly enabled at all? You'll then be able to generate a wireless hotspot from the laptop out to the Pi's.

 

The issue you're having is that chances are the network connections are using RADIUS authentication against your AD account. Are you able to better explain the go with the VPN?