Max ,
We have a custom-built NAC based off of a network monitoring software called
Auconet BICS and a vanilla install of FreeRadius. It’s not officially
supported, costs us a few thousand a year, is difficult to configure. Also, we
just learned that the person who wrote it for us has left the company. So, time
to explore other options. After playing with and learning PacketFence for about
6 months, I believe this is just the software we need.
Regards,
Peter
From: Max McGrath via PacketFence-users
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Sent: Friday, January 19, 2018 6:23 PM
To: ML PF <[email protected]>
Cc: Max McGrath <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [PacketFence-users] Vlan Pooling Question
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]<mailto:[email protected]>>
wrote:
Hello everyone,
We are implementing PacketFence using Out-of-Band enforcement using MAC
Authentication.
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.
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.
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)?
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.
Regards,
Peter Truax
Network Administrator
(360) 688-2240<tel:(360)%20688-2240>
St. Martin’s University
5000 Abbey Way E
Lacey, WA 98503
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