Hi Bill,
On 22/10/10 12:58 PM, Bill Brown wrote:
> Hello,
SNIP
> Packetfence has come highly recommended and I have been playing with a
> test deployment on Centos5.5 x86_64 with packetfence 1.9.1 in a VM. It
> seems to have many of the features we need but I have encounter a few
> hurtles and I want to find out if anyone has worked though these issues.
> It seems from some of the user posts and documentation that there is a
> limit on vlans of about 5. Is there a way to raise the limit up into the
>60s.
There is a limitation of 5 predefined custom Vlans, yes we only allowed 5
custom Vlans.
But there are other ways to do what you want :)
> I would like to defined 60 node categories (one per vlan) and assigned
> nodes to the categories that reflexs the desired vlan (not really
> conserned about user authentication yet).
Defined your 60 categories in Node->Categories.
Then in /usr/local/pf/lib/pf/vlan/custom.pm, add the following code (change
this code to make it work with your
categories and Vlans):
sub custom_getCorrectVlan {
my ($this, $switch, $ifIndex, $mac, $node_info) = @_;
my $logger = Log::Log4perl->get_logger();
Log::Log4perl::MDC->put( 'tid', threads->self->tid() );
# Here we setup a default Vlan in case we can't figure out the right Vlan
my $correctVlan = 'xxx';
if (ref($node_info) eq 'HASH' && defined($node_info->{'category'})) {
my $category = $node_info->{'category'};
if ($category eq 'category1_name') {
$correctVlan = 'vlanid_for_category1';
} elsif ($category eq 'category2_name') {
$correctVlan= 'vlanid_for_category2';
...
} elsif ($category eq 'category60_name') {
$correctVlan = 'vlanid_for_category60';
} else {
$logger->error("$mac does not belong to a valid category
($category). Returning default Vlan $correctVlan");
}
} else {
$logger->error("$mac does not have any category. Returning default
Vlan $correctVlan");
}
return $correctVlan;
}
That should fix your issue.
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> Among others, my issue seems to be one of scaling. When I define the
> vlans on our HP 2610s and try snpmwalk all seems well but when I try to
> set and assign vlans it appears that packetfence is not happy with the
> number of vlans that exist on the switch (only a guess) from the errors.
>
> 10.1.9.101
> - sysUptime: 4 days, 01:09:28.97
> - nb Vlans : 55
> - Uplinks: 49, 50, 51, 52
> connect_and_read.pl
> Argument "" isn't numeric in numeric eq (==) at
> /usr/local/pf/test/../lib/pf/SNMP.pm line 1838 (#1)
> (W numeric) The indicated string was fed as an argument to an
> operator that expected a numeric value instead. If you're fortunate the
> message will identify which operator was so unfortunate.
>
> Packetfence.log
> Oct 22 09:23:25 pfsetvlan(3) WARN: new VLAN ARRAY(0x20878710) is not a
> managed VLAN -> replacing VLAN ARRAY(0x20878710) with MAC detection VLAN
> 94 (pf::SNMP::setVlan)
> The best I can tell it appears to overrun the defined array for vlans
> and fall back to my macdetect vlan when I attempt to test the confg.
>
> I am not strong in perl programming, but any feedback as to if this
> configuration is possible, if anyone has had success with anything
> similar. Buying commercial support is not out of the question but before
> we invest I want to make sure it is even possible to do what we want.
> Thank you for your assistance in this matter,
> Bill Brown
> RCTC Network Tech
>
>
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