Question: why not use SNMP traps? Configure the switch to tell PF when a user plugs in, in my experience it has worked much better than a MAC Vlan.
Jake Sallee Godfather of Bandwidth System Engineer University of Mary Hardin-Baylor 900 College St. Belton, Texas 76513 Fone: 254-295-4658 Phax: 254-295-4221 -----Original Message----- From: Jose [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2011 3:33 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Packetfence-users] portfast and DHCP problem Hello, I have packetfence installed in a lab, with a 3560 cisco switch. I use mac-detection and uplik, and it works, but very slow. When I connect a PC to the switch, the cisco switch port goes up but taking a lot of time, the PC tries to get an ip from dhcp, and after a timeout, it finally gets the ip and works. After that, I register the pc, and the same problem. the port goes down, and up, and it recalculates, etc... But, if I activate portfast, the port goes up inmediately, the PC gets an ip by DHCP inmediately, and after logging on, the port goes down and up so fast, that the PC does not renegotiate the ip, and the process does not continue. The Packerfence change the vlan to the vlan mac-registration, but it does not change the vlan to the normal vlan again and the PC has an ip from the mac-detection vlan (quite caotic). So, it does not work when I activate the portfast, and if I deactivate it, the process is very very slow (it takes 3 minutes). Any idea? Sorry for my English. Thank you. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy2 _______________________________________________ Packetfence-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/packetfence-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ Packetfence-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/packetfence-users
