Hello Erik,

Yes it can assign VLAN only. Do you want a captive portal to register your 
devices or just do 802.1x/ mac authentication ?

There a lot of feature that rely on DHCP handled by PacketFence for the captive 
portal, for example you will lose a good part the Profiling with Fingerbank 
that relies on DHCP traffic.

Thanks,

Ludovic Zammit
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> On Apr 23, 2020, at 7:22 AM, Erik via PacketFence-users 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On 23-04-2020 00:24, Sallee, Jake via PacketFence-users wrote:
>> PF works great with routed networks and depending on the details of your VPN 
>> connection I think it should work in your situation.
> 
> Thanks, it's not the VPN I am wondering about, though.
> 
> The most important requirement is that PF only tells the switches which VLAN 
> to assign to the selected port, based on which client is connecting. It must 
> not do DHCP or DNS. That will be done locally. Nor must it keep track of 
> local DHCP assignments.
> 
> VPN routing and firewall has been set up such that PF that the switches can 
> talk to PF and vice versa.
> 
> I am considering using the same VLAN ids on all sites (there are hundreds). 
> To PF, the VPN presents the individual sites as one large network block, so 
> PF won't know that they are actually numerous individual segments. To the 
> individial locations it does not matter that VLAN ids are the same 
> everywhere, because VLAN ids are stripped by the VPN anyway.
> Communication between hosts on different locations is controlled by the VPN 
> firewall.
> 
> So the main question is, can PF assign VLAN only, without knowing or caring 
> about IPs?
> I am sure it can, as freeRADIUS can, but since I can't check myself yet, I am 
> really curious to know.
> 
> Erik
> 
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