> If they can't bring the DHCP traffic to PF, how about bringing PF to
> the DHCP traffic?  If their site security policy will not let them add
> another interface to their PF server that connects to the DMZ, could
> they add another (independent) PF server on the DMZ just to handle
> guests???

Unless I am quite mistaken, adding a PF server in the DMZ would not give PF 
access to the all-important DHCP packets.  By the design he mentions the 
connections are tunnelled to the DMZ by the internal WLC so even if you had a 
PF server listening to the DMZ interface on the FW (which should in theory see 
EVERYTHING)  the packets would be obfuscated and not usable by PF.

The simplest solution seems to be moving the DHCP service to another device (PF 
can do it if you like). 


Jake Sallee
Godfather of Bandwidth
System Engineer
University of Mary Hardin-Baylor
WWW.UMHB.EDU

900 College St.
Belton, Texas
76513

Fone: 254-295-4658
Phax: 254-295-4221

________________________________________
From: Arthur Emerson [[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2014 2:24 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [PacketFence-users] Portal access from a guest anchor controller 
in DMZ

On Nov 3, 2014, at 2:44 PM, Sallee, Jake <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> The key really is the DHCP, since your APs are most likely in central 
> switching mode the data is tunnelled from the AP to the WLC so you cannot 
> even sniff the traffic on the inside WLC... I'm not giving up, but you do 
> have a head scratcher.

If they can't bring the DHCP traffic to PF, how about bringing PF to
the DHCP traffic?  If their site security policy will not let them add
another interface to their PF server that connects to the DMZ, could
they add another (independent) PF server on the DMZ just to handle
guests???

-Arthur

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