[Packetfence-devel] Trouble configuring Packetfence

[Geoff F. <gf...@hw...>]

I've been trying to get packetfence in a workable situation for us for a few
weeks now, and am having trouble getting the configurations set properly to
do what I'm looking for. I'm using 1.7rc2, for vlan support, but would also
like to be able to redirect people on the isolation/unregistered vlans to
packetfence automatically for registration/quarantine information. Sadly,
I'm having some problems getting this straightened out.

The vlan configuration I have working great- it switches vlans according to
the database, or isolation/registration vlan requirements. However, once the
nodes are placed there, I cannot get any further. I'd like packet fence to
be able to automatically redirect any http/https traffic straight to the
packetfence registration web page.

My packetfence server has an interface on both the registration and
isolation vlans, as well as a span interface. I can manually type in the
correct URL http://<pf-ip-address>/cgi-bin/registration.cgi, and
successfully register the node. My problem lies in the fact that 1)
redirecting unregistered/isolated nodes to packetfence (from www.google.com
to pf.mydomain.com) and 2) redirecting http://pf.mydomain.com to
pf.mydomain.com/cgi-bin/registration.cgi - I just keep redirecting over and
over again until the request times out.

I'm having trouble finding any guides on the internet to help with this.
Most discuss dhcp modes and arp modes. I've tried combinations of dhcp and
vlan, as well as arp and vlan modes, with no success (usually spectacular
failures). Can anyone give me an idea of what I need to enable to get this
working? 

Thanks much!
 
Geoff Franks
Sr. Systems Administrator
Hauptman Woodward Institute