Hi,
I need some fresh ideas because I am kind of stuck with the following problem:

We use PF as a Network Access Control solution together with Cisco-Switches. 
The enforcement is based on the switches configured with port-security and 
SNMP. Everything works so far without any problems. According to their 
role/attached MAC the switch ports belong to certain VLANs. Switch ports with 
new nodes belong to the registration-VLAN. The nodes are enabled to be part of 
the production-system by changing their roles/VLANs. Everything quite straight 
forward.

However, there are some nodes with two/multiple MAC addresses. Simplified these 
nodes use their hardware MACs for communication in order to detect if they are 
in a trusted network. If they can reach a specific host for authentication a 
Virtual-Machine is started with a MAC derived form the Hardware-MAC-but not the 
same. The NIC of the VM is bridged to the Hardware-Interface. The behavior of 
these nodes is not changeable. 

The switch port sees now at least two MACs: One from the Hardware-NIC and one 
from the VM. 

The only way to tackle this problem is to take out specific switch ports from 
NAC and nail them manually to the MACs. 

I’d appreciate any different approaches. 

Thanks
Markus
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