[Packetfence-devel] who response to the dhcp request in the inline mode ???

[Nathaniel F. <nf...@gm...>]

Hi,

First of all, thanks a lot to all the developers and contributors of
packetfence. This project looks very interesting !

I'm currently trying to install and configure it for my network. But I
still don't get something that looks very obvious to everybody
apparently (I haven't find any question about it on the mailing list)

I have for now a server that host pf. it has 2 interfaces. One
connected to the "outside" network and one for the "inside" network
(the network that has to be manage by pf)

I set it in the inline mode.

Everything looks ok at this point. I can open the admin interface...
Now I'm trying to understand from the client side what it has to do...
I'm plugging the client pc inside the inside network. Pf detect it (I
guess through the arp request but I'm not sure) but nobody provide an
IP address to it (no answer to the dhcprequest).

Am I suppose to have a dhcp server running inside the inside network ?
If yes, what should be its configuration and what is the difference
with the passive mode ???

Thanks,
Nat