This is how you setup and use VPN & proxy to research from home under macOS:

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To download the Cisco Secure Client (in the past: Cisco AnyConnect), open the website https://vpn-server.uni-bayreuth.de in your browser. Then, under GROUP: select Outside-AC (!) and enter your **Uni username (e.g. bt123456) and the respective password.
Now, click Login.

Attention!
Open the website using the device you want to install the VPN software onto. Your operating system will be automatically detected, there is no option to choose it manually.

Notice
If your device has no internet connection you can use the openly available @BayernWLAN-WiFi on campus.

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Click the Download button which appears after the login.

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Install the file you have just downloaded by double clicking on it. Follow all instructions given by the installation routine.

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If you haven't already installed Mozilla Firefox, please download and install it.

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Start Mozilla Firefox and open https://laps.uni-bayreuth.de/proxy.
Install the UniBT-Proxy AddOn.

After the installation there should be a new Uni Bayreuth icon in the upper right corner of Firefox.

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Start the Cisco Secure Client from the folder Cisco in your Applications folder.

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Enter the server address vpn-server.uni-bayreuth.de and click on Connect.

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Select the Outside-profile and enter your Uni username (without "additions") and the corresponding password. Click on OK.

When the connection is successfully established the Cisco Secure Client will disappear into the macOS bar to the top.

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In Firefox, enable the UniBT Proxy AddOn by left-clicking on it.
Black = AddOn disabled
Green = AddOn enabled

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That's it! Steps 1-5 have to be done only once.
Please remember to always disconnect VPN and Proxy when you no longer need it. Otherwise all your internet traffic will contnue to go through the Uni Bayreuth!

You can disable the Proxy-AddOn by clicking on the Uni Bayreuth Logo in Firefox.
Cisco Secure Client can be disconnected by clicking the application icon in the macOS bar to the top and clicking Disconnect.

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