Hi.... I have been reading about floating device support in PF and the documentation seems to suggest that its main use is to enable you to connect a switch or AP (to which multiple other devices may be connected) to an access port on any existing PF managed switch, and can be moved at will to an access port on other PF managed switches without the need for isolation/registration on each move, either for the device or any of the devices connected to that device. (I'm a newbie so I'm open to correction here).
I was wondering if it matters whether a floating device is an endpoint device (eg: PC, printer, phone) rather than another connectivity device (eg: switch, hub, wireless AP). The reason I ask is that it would be useful if I could configure certain (but not all) devices to never undergo isolation/registration no matter where they are connected on our network (an all Cisco network) even if they are moved from time to time around the network. We are a college, and basically, the devices connecting to our network are one of two kinds.....college owned and end user owned. Ideally what I would like to be able to do is: * Have all college owned devices (PCs, printers etc) configured as floating devices so they can be registered once, and then moved whenever we desire. Ideally the access port in most cases would be configured only with a primary access VLAN and no tagged VLANs. * Have all non college owned devices (end user laptops) connecting to either the wired or wireless network undergo the usual isolation/registration process at the network edge. This has to allow for the possibility that an end user might disconnect one of our (floating) devices, and plug in their own. Is this doable/feasible with PacketFence? Also, for floating devices, does the access port have to be configured as a trunk carrying multiple .1q VLANs? And lastly, for floating devices, is it still possible to use the custom VLAN assignment hooks via the perl code to assign a VLAN based on our local criteria? Thanx muchly in advance for any help. Chris Bradshaw. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Packetfence-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/packetfence-users
