This role is assigned to personally owned computing devices (workstations, tablets, and smart phones) that are managed by Ohio State faculty, staff, and sponsored guests. Authorization into this role requires an active OSU Internet Username and a university affiliation of “employee” or “guest”.
Helpful Note:
Student employees are placed into this network role and are not placed in the student network role. For other personal devices, see the Other Personal Device network role.
Network role at a glance:
- Wi-Fi (eduroam) connectivity only. No wired option available
- Private IP addressing with network address translation (NAT) for traffic destined off campus
- DHCP reservations and Dynamic DNS are not supported
- All outbound traffic permitted
- Inbound traffic limited to specific voice and video services
Network Role Characteristics
Aliases for this role include
- Employee
- Faculty and Staff
- Sponsored Guest
- osu-employee
Network Traffic Permissions
No outbound traffic limitations are applied to this network role.
Inbound traffic is limited to:
- Required Microsoft Teams and Skype protocols and ports
- Known Wi-Fi calling protocols and ports
- Known Apple FaceTime voice and video protocols and ports
How to connect
Employees and sponsored guests configure their devices for the eduroam Wi-Fi network at wireless.osu.edu by selecting to Connect to eduroam. Employees and sponsored guests will authenticate with their name.# and password then follow the on-screen instructions, which will step through configuring and onboarding the device. Once configured, the device will use a digital certificate to authenticate to the network. This certificate is valid for five years, meaning network connectivity is not disrupted when an employee or sponsored guest changes their password.
Once configured, choose eduroam from the list of Wi-Fi networks.
IP (Internet Protocol) Addressing
Devices placed in the employee and sponsored guest computing role are assigned private IPv4 address space dynamically assigned through DHCP. IP address reservations are not supported. Traffic destined off campus to non-Ohio State address space will have the source IP translated to routable IPv4 public address space. However, traffic destined to Ohio State address space will retain the original private source address and not be translated. IPv6 addresses are established through IPv6 route advertisements and neighbor discovery processes.
Additional Information for IT Teams
This network role is assigned to all faculty, staff, student employees, and sponsored guest devices that connect through the eduroam network.