Re: [PacketFence-users] Packetfence setup: cannot connect to management interface

[Robin K. <ml...@ro...>]

Hi Derek and all,
thanks a lot for pointing out the log file as well.
I've just re-installed Debian and Pf, and it looks like I'm having some kind of issue with the network interfaces. When I now look at the Network section of the configurator, interfaces eth1 and eth2 are shown as disabled, whereas eth0 and eth3 have an "enabled" status.
When I click on one of the disabled interfaces, I get the following on the web interface:

Error! Interface eth1 has not been enabled, should check server side logs for details.
Well, I checked /usr/local/pf/logs/packetfence.log but couldn't find anything helpful in there:
| Action                                                     | Time      |
+------------------------------------------------------------+-----------+
| /interface/begin                                           | 0.001005s |
| /interface/object                                          | 0.003405s |
| /interface/up                                              | 0.005336s |
| /end                                                       | 0.008827s |
|  -> pfappserver::View::JSON->process                       | 0.003760s |
'------------------------------------------------------------+-----------'

 (Catalyst::finalize)

Furthermore, I checked the error_log and admin_error_log files, but those are completely empty.
So, I really don't understand what is wrong here. All the interfaces are defined in /etc/network/interfaces as static interfaces, with distinctive IP addresses. Here's the output that I get from ifconfig:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:24:ce:80:34  
          inet addr:192.168.178.10  Bcast:192.168.178.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::200:24ff:fece:8034/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1053 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1003 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:114761 (112.0 KiB)  TX bytes:1030095 (1005.9 KiB)
          Interrupt:19 Memory:a1000000-a1020000 

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:24:ce:80:35  
          inet addr:192.168.10.1  Bcast:192.168.10.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
          Interrupt:16 Memory:a2000000-a2020000 

eth2      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:24:ce:80:36  
          inet addr:192.168.10.2  Bcast:192.168.10.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
          Interrupt:16 Memory:a3000000-a3020000 

eth3      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:24:ce:80:37  
          inet addr:192.168.10.3  Bcast:192.168.10.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::200:24ff:fece:8037/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:217 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:62564 (61.0 KiB)  TX bytes:468 (468.0 B)
          Interrupt:17 Memory:a4000000-a4020000 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:25 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:25 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:1978 (1.9 KiB)  TX bytes:1978 (1.9 KiB)

I've tried restarting Pf and even rebooted the server, but I keep getting this very same message over and over again, and cannot enable the other interfaces...
Thanks for any help with this issue!
Robin