> If the student leave the building 1 to go in the building 2 then his role in
> packetfence will stay "Student" but the role for the new access point will be
> Student_Bat1_ClassX wish is not in the airgroup Bonjour_Bat1_class1.
I think Fabrice meant the role in building 2 would be Student_Bat2_ClassX ;)
Cheers!
dw.
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On May 7, 2014, at 3:37 PM, Fabrice DURAND <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I understand what you mean but i don´t understand why you think packetfence
> can´t do it.
>
> Let me explain a simple case.
>
> First i create 2 roles in the controller, the first one "Project_Bat1_Class1"
> with vlan id 10, the second one is "Student_Bat1_Class1" with the vlan id 20.
> These 2 roles are in the airgroup Bonjour_Bat1_class1.
>
> So i am in the Building 1, i have a projector in the class 1, the projector
> has a role "Projector" in PacketFence.
> I am a student with my ipad and i have been register as a student in
> PacketFence with the role "Student".
> The access point configuration for the class 1 in PacketFence has been
> configured like that:
>
> ROLE MAPPING BY SWITCH ROLE:
> Projector => Project_Bat1_Class1
> Student => Student_Bat1_Class1
>
> So because the 2 devices are in the same airgroup they are able to
> communicate with bonjour.
>
>
> If the student leave the building 1 to go in the building 2 then his role in
> packetfence will stay "Student" but the role for the new access point will be
> Student_Bat1_ClassX wish is not in the airgroup Bonjour_Bat1_class1.
>
>
>
> Regards
> Fabrice
>
>
>
> Le 2014-05-07 12:12, Palmer, Tim a écrit :
>> Thanks Jason, that's a clearer answer than I was writing.
>>
>> Clearpass isn't just an mDNS reflector like avahi, its actual policy based
>> control of mDNS/Bonjour devices. I believe it involves active manipulation
>> of the AP configurations, not just controller based - it would have to
>> since you can limit what devices a user sees, based on location as well as
>> role. Or at least that what my boss was sold on.
>>
>> The core problem for us is to allow idiot resistant, cross platform
>> wireless screen sharing between projectors and laptops. AppleTVs with a
>> third party app for Windows machines does this, but uses bonjour which of
>> course should have no place on a non-home network. We haven't found
>> anything else that works as well.
>>
>> Tim
>>
>> On 5/7/14 11:44 AM, "Jason Frisvold" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Fabrice DURAND wrote:
>>>> Hello Tim,
>>>>
>>>> just to know , what Clearpass can do more than PacketFence ?
>>> Aruba has a feature called airgroup. Basically, it's a way of handling
>>> Bonjour over wireless. Clearpass adds the ability to create groups of
>>> devices and users rather than having it all wide open to anyone on the
>>> VLAN.
>>>
>>> I'm being pressured somewhat to look into this as well, but I'm hoping
>>> to be able to build something into Packetfence to deal with this instead
>>> of moving to Clearpass. It's expensive and proprietary, and doesn't
>>> have all the features that Packetfence does.
>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>> Fabrice
>>
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