Hello,
We are designing a solution utilizing PacketFence for an environment
consisting of around ~5000 devices, wired and wireless, utilizing 802.1x,
guest self-registration, and gaming device registration. PacketFence will
run as a VM.
I have experimented with the Linux HA configuration recommendation in the
Administrator's guide, and at this point, I would prefer to find a
different solution for load balancing and failover. I am hoping some of you
might be able to answer a few questions...
1) Has anyone put PacketFence behind a Cisco IP SLB? Specifically, would
there be any issues configuring a virtual IP for both the FreeRadius
aspect, and the captive portal part on the registration VLAN? It seems like
it should work fine to me, but I could be missing something...
2) Are there any sizing/scaling guidelines for PacketFence? I haven't been
able to find any other than the minimums in the administrator's guide.
3) Are there any quirks or bugs I should be aware of when scaling up to
that number of devices?
4) Does anyone have any suggestions on a way to implement a "let everyone
authorize" failover option? In our particular environment, if PacketFence
were to go down for some reason, my preference would be that everyone
automatically get put on the access vlan configured on the switch. I was
thinking of a separate FreeRadius server configured to just authorize
everyone set as a secondary or tertiary aaa server in the various switches.
I intend to have a separate DB server, possibly with MySQL clustering, to
handle that aspect.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Regards,
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Fletcher Haynes <[email protected]>
Systems Administrator/Network Services Consultant
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