Louis,
Thank you, that is what I’d needed, and apparently missed reading through the
file earlier.
There is a “[default]” that contains “vlans=1,22,23,24,25,110,111,112” and then
lines with the name of the vlan and its value, lines of this type for
“registration”
“registrationVlan=110”
And I do see how some switches, for instance, one campus in particular, has in
each stanza lines that read “Default_VLANVlan=112” or nearly unique “General
Usevlan=1”.
I should be able to set “RegistrationVlan=150” in the stanzas for the end point
switches at this one particular location. Reconfigure the router to put the
necessary network into the new vlan and if it works do the same process for the
Isolation vlan.
Since there are only a few switches per floor in the building, and we route by
floor (unique network with unique vlan id) I can modify those via the web
interface as I go.
My PF manager said something about a DOS INI file but this looks like a normal
unix file to me, which I will edit with # vi.
And I guess, reload the server, # ~pf/bin/pfcmd services pf restart
Does this seem correct? I’m trying to be verbose, not just for myself, but
maybe for the next guy.
Thank you,
Brian
From: Louis Munro [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2016 12:34 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [PacketFence-users] change vlan map on multiple switches
Hi Brian,
Any switch for which the values are not defined takes those values from the
“default” switch.
So if you use the same VLANs for all switches, you can simply change the
default switch and that will apply to all of them unless specifically overriden.
If you need to change a large number of switches, you may want to use a script
to generate a new conf/switches.conf file instead of manually editing the old
one.
It depends on what is easier for you I suppose and the number of switches to
change.
Regards,
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On Feb 17, 2016, at 11:46 , Cuttler, Brian (HEALTH)
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hello,
I've searched (perhaps ineffectively) in the archive and don't see a mechanism
to update the vlan map for multiple switches at the same time. I see that
packetfence v 5.6.0 has a "switch group" but we are at, and are staying at
5.0.2 so that is not an option for us.
Issue is we are moving our network management from 2 buildings to 1 (we have 5
campuses but are not consolidating others, at least not now, these two building
just happen to be near each other) and will have some vlan collisions. Want to
migrate one of the buildings to new/unused vlans prior to moving the routing.
I can iterate through the switches, there are not "a lot", but changing them
all at once would reduce the window of confusion on the network.
We'd thought that conf/switches.conf would contain the settings, but as a rule
only the default_vlan is listed in each stanza, and I'm not seeing where our
Registration or Isolation vlans are defined.
Thanks in advance for your advice and guidance.
Brian
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