We are just wrapping up our spring semester move-in rush, and have registered about 2,500 new devices in the past few days on a brand new PF 3.6.1 deployment. Everything has worked flawlessly.
The only gotcha that we have encountered so far is with PF's new gaming console self-registration system and wired ports. We are using Cisco 2960 switches in the dorms, configured for port-security traps to PF. If a student plugs their gaming console into the switch, PF assigns it to the registration VLAN like it should. Then, as an asynchronous process, they go to another computer and register the MAC address with PF via the new gaming adapter self-registration web page. The gaming console routine apparently does not send any notification to the switch port like the traditional registration routine does, and the gaming device is stuck on the registration VLAN until either another MAC address is plugged into that port or I mark the gaming device as un-registered and then registered again. It makes total sense from the switch's perspective, since it shouldn't send a trap since the MAC address never changed. Long story short, I'm not sure if I should report this as a bug, try to fix it myself with a kludge to the code, or if we should have set the switches up differently to handle this scenario? I'm far from a qualified Perl programmer, but do see a call to "register_node" in /usr/local/pf/html/captive-portal/\ register-gaming-device.cgi and suspect that a few additional lines to make it de-auth and re-auth the newly-registered gaming device would solve my problem without having to change the switches. Is there a reason why this can't (or shouldn't) be done on the gaming console self-registration system web page??? -Arthur ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Arthur Emerson III Email: [email protected] Network Administrator InterNIC: AE81 Mount Saint Mary College MaBell: (845) 561-0800 Ext. 3109 330 Powell Ave. Fax: (845) 562-6762 Newburgh, NY 12550 SneakerNet: Aquinas Hall Room 11 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnnow-d2d _______________________________________________ PacketFence-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/packetfence-users
