Re: VMPS - Initial project ideas

2008-11-12 Thread Hairy51

Excellent, thanks for all your comments guys - i have managed to successfully
download, compile and install the Freeradius 2.1.1 application and have
delved into the vmpsd.conf.inf file

Is there any documentation out there on how to get a basic VMPS system up
and running? I am purely in the testing stages at the moment, but would like
to get the box attached to a switch and begin responding to VMPS requests as
quick as possible...

Any inout much appreciated,

Cheers

Jon


Hairy51 wrote:
 
 Hi all,
 
 I am just about to start a project to remove the VMPS system from an aging
 catalyst switch and i would like to investigate the possibilty of using
 FreeRadius for this.
 
 We currently have about 1500 hosts that rely on VMPS for dynamic
 assignment and an ideal solution would be to move the VMPS service onto a
 server (Or multiple servers) with as little interuptions to users as
 possible.
 
 Also, for simplicities sake it would be great if we could re-use the
 current Static VMPS file that the catalyst switch uses. 
 
 I have looked into FreeNAC as a solution, but want to investigate other
 ways of acheiving this. We do not really need to do anything other than
 assign (or block) VLANs, so the extra functionality of FreeNAC is not
 needed at this point.
 
 Considering i am coming from a limited Linux background, how hard would it
 be for me to acheive this using FreeRADIUS? Does it sound feasible? I am
 really looking for a bit of advice from those with experience of the
 FreeRADIUS application and who know of the potential pit-falls and
 complications that we may face!
 
 Many thanks - any comments or idea's much appreciated...
 
 Cheers
 
 Jonathan
 
 
 

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VMPS - Initial project ideas

2008-10-31 Thread Hairy51

Hi all,

I am just about to start a project to remove the VMPS system from an aging
catalyst switch and i would like to investigate the possibilty of using
FreeRadius for this.

We currently have about 1500 hosts that rely on VMPS for dynamic assignment
and an ideal solution would be to move the VMPS service onto a server (Or
multiple servers) with as little interuptions to users as possible.

Also, for simplicities sake it would be great if we could re-use the current
Static VMPS file that the catalyst switch uses. 

I have looked into FreeNAC as a solution, but want to investigate other ways
of acheiving this. We do not really need to do anything other than assign
(or block) VLANs, so the extra functionality of FreeNAC is not needed at
this point.

Considering i am coming from a limited Linux background, how hard would it
be for me to acheive this using FreeRADIUS? Does it sound feasible? I am
really looking for a bit of advice from those with experience of the
FreeRADIUS application and who know of the potential pit-falls and
complications that we may face!

Many thanks - any comments or idea's much appreciated...

Cheers

Jonathan


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