afaik UMD-Wireless is the same thing as UMD-TunnelAll. UMD-TunnelAll is
used to tunnel all your connections thru the UMD vpn, as opposed to UMD,
which is used to tunnel only those connection that go to umd.edu server.
I don't know why they would need UMD when they have UND-TunnelAll.

UMD-Wireless and UMD-TunnelAll are indeed the same thing.  All of
your traffic is sent down the VPN tunnel.  The UMD profile, however,
is actually preferred in almost all cases.  This profile does "split
tunneling", where as you say, your UMD destined traffic goes down the
VPN tunnel and everything else goes out your regular ISP connection.
This mode of tunneling is newer, and if you are at home is definitely
what you want.  Your UMD traffic goes over the encrypted VPN tunnel, and
everything else goes out your DSL/cable modem connection straight to
google/cnn/espn/etc.   If you were running UMD-TunnelAll all of that
non-UMD traffic would go out your VPN tunnel to campus, and then from
there out to the internet.  Either way the first hop is over your
DLS/cable modem; but with UMD-TunnelAll you also have to encrypt that
internet traffic, as well as send it through a bunch of extra UMD router
hops, and also share the campus's ISP connection.

UMD-Wireless was put out a long time ago for wireless users so their
traffic couldn't be snooped.  Now we have the the 'umd-secure' ssid
which supports WPA/WPA2.  UMD-TunnelAll was there for a few old
applications that required campus IP addresses.  At some point we
will probably decommission everything but UMD.

-Karl Reuss
 OIT/NTS

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