Peter -
What NAC system are you replacing with PacketFence and why? Just curious...
We've been happy PacketFence users for the last 5 years.
On Jan 16, 2018 1:45 PM, "Truax, Peter via PacketFence-users" <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
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> We are implementing PacketFence using Out-of-Band enforcement using MAC
> Authentication.
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> We have a situation where we would like to use 2 vlans for the same role.
> The vlans would be automatically assigned via some mechanism. For example,
> we have more Students than one vlan can use effectively by best practice.
> So, we use vlan 600 and 601 to be “Students.” These are now assigned by our
> NAC solution via round-robin that we are replacing with PacketFence.
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> According to the Administration Guide at https://packetfence.org/doc/
> PacketFence_Administration_Guide.html section 10.1, vlan pooling is
> supported. This sounds like what we want to do.
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> Can someone clarify the instructions a bit? Do we configure the vlan pool
> in the Role by VLAN ID section of the Switch? And how do you specify which
> of the 2 algorithms (hash of username, or round-robin)?
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> We have attempted this by inputing 600,601 into the Roles by VLAN ID, but
> looking at the debug output, PacketFence sends “600,601” as the vlan
> assigned to the switch. Obviously this fails.
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> Regards,
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> *Peter Truax*
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> *Network Administrator*
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> St. Martin’s University
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