Arthur,
Thanks! This makes sense.
So let us say I have a VLAN on a switch that is the MAC detection VLAN. A
device gets plugged into it, the PF is notified by the SNMP - and then
what? Or should I automatically move that device to a different VLAN right
away?
Boris.
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 8:56 AM, Arthur Emerson <[email protected]>
wrote:
> PF is not really intended to manage your production DHCP. You need to
> provide your own DHCP arrangements for each of your production networks
> in a VLAN-switching setup. PF tells the switch to change the client's
> VLAN, and that's where PF's responsibility ends.
>
> If you would like to take advantage of PF's IP address history function
> (not as great in V4 as it was in V3 IMO), then you will need to use a
> Cisco DHCP helper to send those requests to PF IN ADDITION TO your
> production DHCP server. You could set up PF interfaces on every VLAN
> and let PF listen for the DHCP broadcasts directly, but that really
> isn't practical on larger networks...
>
> -Arthur
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> From: Boris Epstein <[email protected]>
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> Date: Tuesday, January 20, 2015 at 5:25 PM
> To: "[email protected]" <
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> Subject: [PacketFence-users] DHCP on switch via DHCP helper
>
> Hello listmates,
>
> Let us say I have a PF and I have a number of Cisco switches directly
> accessible via IP and I want VLAN's on those switches to be DHCP-managed
> with the PF server serving the addresses. How do I do that? Or is that the
> correct way to do that?
>
> So continuing on with the example: let us say my PF server is at
> 192.168.10.5 and a switch sw1 is at 192.168.10.20. sw1 is
> allocating/serving a number of VLAN's not even accessible to the PF server.
> Can it still control them - including the DHCP on them?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Boris.
>
>
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