Logical Classes

David Coulthart davec at columbia.edu
Wed Sep 17 12:39:26 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 22:54 -0400, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:
> --On Tuesday, September 16, 2008 10:43:18 PM -0400 Kelvin Williams 
> <kelvin-lists at williamschadwell.com> wrote:
> 
> > I would like to create classes for clients that are not based on MAC
> > Address, Vendor Info, etc.
> >
> >
> >
> > The ultimate goal here, is to have our IDS talk to our provisioning system
> > and when it detects that a subscriber's machine is infected to place them
> > into a walled garden.
> >
> >
> >
> > I've looked around but have been unable to find an answer.  How can I
> > create:
> >
> >
> >
> > class "virus-infected-idiot" {
> >
> >             // What goes here //
> >
> > }
> >
> >
> >
> > When the MAC is known and the MAC may fall into another defined class on
> > the dhcp server?  Can the class be specified in the host declaration?
> 
>    class "virus-infected-idiot" {
>      match hardware;
>    }
> 
>    subclass "virus-infected-idiot" 1:AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF;

Is it possible to add and delete these subclass statements dynamically
using OMAPI or am I completely misunderstanding this announcement in the
3.1.1 release notes?

"Management of class and subclass statements via OMAPI."

Thanks,
Dave Coulthart



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