Hi there, Currently we have PacketFence (3.6.1) up and running and it's working great! All our AccessPoints (AeroHive) and switches (HP Procurve) are connected to pf. As most users, we are running it in an educational environment. This means that our own PC's used for exams etc are listed in pf, so are the devices used by the administration of the school (i.e. PC's and printers). To make sure that they are placed in the correct VLAN, we created device categories and placed these device in the right category. Students can now bring their own device, register it in pf and use the WLAN. Since the start of this setup we now have 2000+ devices, with just +/- 900 students. The problem we discovered is that the devices are registered and never expire. Luckily pf has a possibility to enable expiration (node.expire in pf.conf). Now we wonder if it is possible to let just the WLAN devices (default category) expire. According to the pf site (advanced_features.html) " With little customization it is also possible to do this on a device category basis." We would like to know what this little customization is. We can't find in the documentation, on the site, google, whatever. So the question we have is: "How do we set expiration on a node category?".
Maybe we miss the point and is this not really necessary, because the node.expire setting only acts when a device is not used for X time. The printers and PC's our employees and students use are usually active during the day, so if X is high enough, it would also solve the problem. I can't get any good info on this too. We really hope there is an answer to this question, because we REALLY like this product and are advising and helping other schools in our neighborhood with it. Cheers! R. van Moorsel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
