I am working on setting up packetfence in a test environment and most of it is running smoothly and working very well. One issue that I have run into is the user machine that I am using to test with is Ubuntu 10.04 and there seems to be some setting in Ubuntu (maybe Linux in general I haven't tried any other distros yet) where it delays for about 5 seconds before the network interface registers as down when it has been unplugged or the interface is shutdown. My guess is that is so that if there's a slight hiccup in the link it doesn't lose its connection but it's causing the connection to not be reset when packetfence flips the vlan and the admin status of the port. Looking at the logs in packetfence and the switch it is actually shutting down the port and bringing it back up but Ubuntu is not showing the interface as down so I have to manually reset the interface on Ubuntu to get an IP address on the correct vlan. I tried a Windows 7 machine and it worked fine because it immediately registers the interface as being down. Has anyone else run into this issue? Would there be a way to program in a delay between the admin status down and up SNMP writes to the switch so it would leave the port down for 6 seconds? Thanks for any help.
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