Stormont, Stephen (IMS) wrote: > It looks like it may only be Cisco switches that support WOL and 802.1x.
We continue to struggle with this. Yes, Cisco supports WoL with 802.1x. And it works, if you can direct the WoL packet to the right place. In our network, we have a number of different VLANs. And, each VLAN is broken into lots of subnets based on switch stacks. When a system is turned off, or is machine auth'ed, then it ends up in a holding VLAN intended to separate the machines away from the production network. There are a few problems. First, the default "holding" network that Cisco uses is VLAN 1. We don't have that routed, so there's actually no way to get to it. You can configure the holding network, though (the switchport access vlan XXXX command) and then you have a definitive place to send the packet. And then we come to our next problem. We're using Landesk, which is apparently a braindead solution. If the machine isn't in the same place it was a moment ago, Landesk apparently has no way of discovering where the machine is now. Very frustrating. If you're using a management solution that can be programmed, however, this is a really easy task. Just ask packetfence where the machine is. For our network, I can tell you where a machine is via a direct answer from packetfence, or by using the switch/port information that packetfence has to determine what the "resting" VLAN would be. This should all work with MAB as well. In fact, it's easier since the VLAN shouldn't change when you turn off the machine. Well, unless you configure things a bit differently, that is. -- --------------------------- Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold [email protected] --------------------------- "Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.\" - Niven's Inverse of Clarke's Third Law ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ PacketFence-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/packetfence-users
