Re: [Packetfence-users] Need some guidance

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Olivier. Thanks for the reply. How would the pf.conf file read with the normal vlan. Can I add all my vlans there and create 2 more like you suggested for isolation and registration. Also can I get away with the 1 NIC for my setup

Thanks Scott
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From: Olivier Bilodeau <obi...@in...>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:11:44 
To: <pac...@li...>
Subject: Re: [Packetfence-users] Need some guidance

Hi Scott,

Scott Plough wrote:
> Hi guys, I'm new to packetfence and in a K-12 school environment. I
> have about 16 buildings on their own Vlan and all my switches are
> Cisco. I was just wondering how other schools with multiple Vlans has
> Packetfence setup. I've gone over the docs and have the ZEN 1.8.6 VM
> installed on our VMware server and I'm still confused.  Any help
> would be appreciated.

What I usually propose when a network is already implemented with 
multiple VLAN per building (as is often the case in schools setup) is a 
per-switch configuration of the VLANs.

This way PacketFence will always know to what VLAN put a user into based 
on what switch they are connected to.

To do so, in conf/switches.conf (or Configuration -> Switches in the web 
admin) you configure normalVlan on each switch.

To glue it all together (registration, isolation) you need to add two 
new VLANs (registration and isolation VLANs) to your whole network (the 
same everywhere usually simplifies things) all spanned up to your 
PacketFence server. Then you configure in switches.conf or through the 
web what they are in the default section.

I hope this clarifies your multiple VLAN portion. If this doesn't meet 
your requirements (like you have a student vlan vs staff vlan) let us 
know, there is a lot of things that PacketFence can do but it will 
require a little more work.

Have a nice day!
-- 
Olivier Bilodeau
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Inverse inc. :: Leaders behind SOGo (www.scalableogo.org) and
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