Hi , I didn't find any document ( even in cisco site ) which indicates that the VMPS is obsolete . Also if you need any VMPS server for your cisco switches you can use the GPL version in sourceforge named OpenVMPS. ( http://vmps.sourceforge.net/ ) . I knew that dot1x authentication is much more better than VMPS solution , but you must know that all of the LAN clients are not 10/100 or even 1000 Ethernet Card which support dot1x . Then I think the most better solution for the whole clients remains VMPS. --- Regards ================================================================= / Seyyed Hamid Reza / WINDOWS FOR NOW !! / / Hashemi Golpayegani / Linux for future , FreeBSD for ever / / Morva System Co. / ------------------------------------- / / Network Administrator/ hamid@xxxxxxxxx , ICQ# : 42209876 / ================================================================ -----Original Message----- From: vlan-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:vlan-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jon Peatfield Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 1:12 PM To: Linux 802.1Q VLAN Subject: RE: [VLAN] Mapping roaming MAC addresses to .1q vlans. On Sun, 27 Mar 2005, Hamid Hashemi Golpayegani wrote: > I knew that in the cisco switches can use VPMS to assign VLAN Numbers > to the port while the link coming up . > Here is what cisco says about VMPS : > > " With the VMPS, you can dynamically assign switch ports to VLANs > based on the source Media Access Control (MAC) address of the device > connected to the port " > > You have to put your switch ports in Dynamic mode and configure your > switch to assign the VLAN from the VMPS and also configure the VMPS . > Then you can be sure that every MAC want to connect to your switches > will be member of an specific VLAN. > You can read more about VMPS and how to configure it from here : > > http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps4324/products_config > uration_guide_chapter09186a00801f5a19.html > > This link is for Catalyst 4500 Series, but you can find similar for > any kind of cisco switches which support VMPS. Isn't VMPS considered obsolete (even by Cisco)? I don't think any current systems can run as VMPS servers, and the protocol is (of course) entirely based on trusting the mac address of the client... These days Cisco seem to expect people to use dot1x which (with their proprietory extentions) can be used to drop a client into a particular vlan. Of course dot1x does require client support. -- Jon _______________________________________________ Vlan mailing list Vlan@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.lanforge.com/mailman/listinfo/vlan
