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.
You won't be able to do that, but you should be able to convert it pretty easily, probably into a comma-separated: mac,vlan-name ...file
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.
FreeNAC offers nothing useful that I can see.
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!
We've done it. It was not very hard. Basically, you need: * FreeRadius 2 - pick the most recent version * A list of the mac,vlan pairs in a text file * Ability to follow the (pretty simple) examples in the FreeRadius source Specifically see "raddb/sites-available/vmps"