Klaus Vink Slott wrote:
On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 22:36:40 +0100, Per Jessen wrote:
Why not openSuSE? Not that this situation will be encountered very often, but it does violate Wolfgang's Principle of Least Astonishment.
I think it would be a clever thing to do - I don't know how often it's going to be really useful, but still.
I agree. A real world example is my university. On the wired network, when a unknown hw-address connects (and is not 802.1x capable) they are placed on a registration vlan and given a temporary dhcp lease. All www is redirected to a captive portal and the user is supposed to give his credentials. If the user succeeds entering a username and a password, we register his mac-address in our database and instructs the switch to put the the port offline for a short while. This is seen from the client as a disconnect/connect and the process restarts, only this time the hw-addresss is known to the switch and the client is now placed on a suitable vlan.
Good example, even if perhaps not very common. I've googled a bit, and I think your setup will work if the NIC is set up to work as/with "ifplugd". That may be what James Knott referred to. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (4.2°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org