Derek, thanks!
Somehow I am not able to define the uplink ports and make it work. I get no
error messages of any kind but it looks like PacketFence simply ignores
them.
Does anyone have a sample config with the uplink ports specified?
Boris.
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 11:20 AM, Derek Wuelfrath <[email protected]>
wrote:
> One is that somehow I can not define off-limits ports on my switches. The
> switches.conf file instructions (uplink ports) seems to have no effect and
> I can not figure out how to tell Cisco not to generate SNMP alerts on them
> either.
>
> What do you mean by “off-limits”. If you want to prevent PacketFence from
> doing anything when receiving SNMP traps from specific ports, it is “uplink
> ports” that you want to look into. You need to make sure to use the ifIndex.
>
> The other problem is, how do I get PF to know that a node has been
> unplugged? The SNMP on the switch does its job, the trap gets fired,
> traffic communicated back to the PF server - yet it still lists the node as
> active! Has anybody figured that one out?
>
> Active / Inactive depends on the DHCP lease time...
> Cheers!
> dw.
>
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>
> On February 5, 2015 at 19:11:46, Boris Epstein ([email protected])
> wrote:
>
> Hello listmates,
>
> I finally got my PF configuration going - many thanks to many of you. Now
> I have just a few glitches to work through.
>
> One is that somehow I can not define off-limits ports on my switches. The
> switches.conf file instructions (uplink ports) seems to have no effect and
> I can not figure out how to tell Cisco not to generate SNMP alerts on them
> either.
>
> The other problem is, how do I get PF to know that a node has been
> unplugged? The SNMP on the switch does its job, the trap gets fired,
> traffic communicated back to the PF server - yet it still lists the node as
> active! Has anybody figured that one out?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Boris.
>
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