Hello all, I am curious how people are dealing with printers and 802.1x. We are using MAB to authenticate the devices which works fine. We have begun to implement the black hole concept as our next phase. We have built a vlan 86 that is strictly layer 2, we put all of the ports into that vlan and then use dynamic vlan assignment to place them into the correct vlan. That too works fine, the issue we have been running into is when the printer goes into hibernate/sleep mode. I am guessing that causes an up/down event on the switch which will cause the 802.1x authentication process to start over. When that happens the devices end up in vlan 86 and MAB is stuck in the running state because the device is not talking on the network.
I have tried enabling ip device tracking but that didn't help. I am going to setup a ping probe using InterMapper to ping the device and see if that keeps it active but I am curious if anyone out there has ran into issues with printers and if so how have they dealt with them. Thanks!
