Re: [PacketFence-users] MAC bypass and recommendations

[Fabrice D. <fd...@in...>]

Hello Oskar,

in fact when you do mac authentication the status of the node in 
packetfence is the "User" in that case.

So just reg the mac and assign a role and you will be ok.

Regards

Fabrice

Le 20-01-14 à 16 h 40, oskar svedman via PacketFence-users a écrit :
>
> Hi,
> Need some guidelines and help with packetfence.
>
> I have setup it and I can authenticate Windows PC’s with 802.1x with 
> our AD.
>
> We have 150 users. 50% computers and 50% thin clients and a lot of 
> printers.
>
> I need to use MAC bypass for our thin clients and printers. My first 
> idea was to create a user for each device in our AD with the MAC 
> address as username/password. But our AD does not accept it because of 
> a password policy + I would rather avoid having all devices as users 
> in our AD.
>
> How can it be done, can I create users in PacketFance for devices 
> using MAC bypass? Or what is the recommended way to setup it?
>
> I only need two vlans on our network. One for our main network that 
> computers using 802.1x and other devices with MAC bypass will be 
> placed in and one Guest network with no authentication there all other 
> devices will be placed in.
>
> Using Cisco 2960 access switches.
>
> Thanks for any inputs you can provide
>
>
>
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