> Out of interest Jake, does your PacketFence server serve IP addresses for the > registration and isolation networks?
Nope. It all uses the same DHCP server which is separate from PF. We just setup different options for the isolation and registration scopes. Our two reasons for this are: 1) Linux DHCP scares my bosses. My bosses are hesitant to deploy FOSS into production. But I am sure most people have heard the same old arguments for and against FOSS in the enterprise. Luckily I am eroding away at my management’s fears of open source software and FOSS is starting to become a mainstay in my datacenter and beyond. 2) When we deployed PF in production,4.5 years ago, we already had an existing DHCP infrastructure and adding the required scopes seemed simpler than setting up a new server. Us network guys can be a bit lazy like that sometimes : ) Jake Sallee Godfather of Bandwidth System Engineer University of Mary Hardin-Baylor WWW.UMHB.EDU 900 College St. Belton, Texas 76513 Fone: 254-295-4658 Phax: 254-295-4221 ________________________________________ From: Morris, Andi [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2015 4:45 AM To: '[email protected]' Subject: Re: [PacketFence-users] PF and independent DHCP Out of interest Jake, does your PacketFence server serve IP addresses for the registration and isolation networks? Cheers, Andi -----Original Message----- From: Sallee, Jake [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 29 April 2015 21:03 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [PacketFence-users] PF and independent DHCP You can put the DHCP helper directive in the switch just don't run DHCP on the PF server (this is exaclty what we do). The switch should still serve up your DHCP and the PF server will be happy that it is seeing the DHCP traffic. Also; running DHCP on the actual switch has always struck me as a strange idea. Could you explain why you decided to do it that way? Jake Sallee Godfather of Bandwidth System Engineer University of Mary Hardin-Baylor WWW.UMHB.EDU 900 College St. Belton, Texas 76513 Fone: 254-295-4658 Phax: 254-295-4221 ________________________________ From: Boris Epstein [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2015 9:38 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [PacketFence-users] PF and independent DHCP Hello listmates, I am using PF in a VLAN-based environment. The VLAN's aremanaged by independent switches, So is DHCP assignment on these VLAN's. It all works fine with one exception: the captive portal for machines on my VLAN's generates the following error message when I try to connect to it: "Sorry! Your computer was not found in the PacketFence database. Please reboot to solve this issue." This discussion from a few years back: http://sourceforge.net/p/packetfence/mailman/packetfence-users/thread/[email protected]/ seems to suggest that the DHCP info (MAC, IP address, etc.) needs to be communicated back to the PF server. One suggested approach is using ip-helpers. My concern is that this may make me dependent on my PF server for DHCP as my Cisco switches will be tied to it and unable to perform as independent DHCP servers. Does anybody know if that is the case? In short, I need to have a situation where routine IP infrastructure functions (routing, DHCP IP address assignment, etc.) occur regardless of the status of the PF server - even if it is down. Any advice on how to do that and at the same time have a functional PF server with accessible captive portal will be greatly appreciated. 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