Update: PacketFence 3.5.0!

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Our first post regarding PacketFence can be found here. A few hours ago, a new release – PacketFence version 3.5.0 – was made available.

“PacketFence is a fully supported, trusted, Free and Open Source network access control (NAC) solution. Boasting an impressive feature set including a captive-portal for registration and remediation, centralized wired and wireless management, 802.1X support, layer-2 isolation of problematic devices, integration with the Snort IDS and the Nessus vulnerability scanner; PacketFence can be used to effectively secure networks – from small to very large heterogeneous networks.”

PacketFence 3.5.0 official change log:

New Hardware Support

• Cisco Catalyst 3560G
  
• Netgear GS110 series (SNMP link up/down)
  
• Cisco Aironet in Wireless Directory Services (WDS) mode
  

New Features

• Remediation module for SourceFire 3D (addons/sourcefire)
  
• Added portal profile feature that allow to present a custom captive portal depending on the SSID you connect to. Refer to Administration Guide for further details
  
• Added a new action to close another violation
  
• Added a new Web-based configurator that eases the installation and configuration process of a new PacketFence installation
  
• Added support for Suricata IDS (#1141)
  

Enhancements

• Improved handling of an empty conf/pf.conf configuration file
  
• Improved error reporting for dynamic uplink detection on Cisco
  
• Interface gateways are no longer required in configuration (#1447)
  
• general.caching parameter removed from configuration
  
• Major refactoring, cleanup and dependencies removal
  
• node.expire now works for VLAN/Inline mode (#1481)
  
• Closing expired violations using the release_date (#1476)
  
• Excluding the local switch when building the NAS SQL table (#1491)
  
• FreeRADIUS configuration is now fully managed (pf/raddb)
  
• Use of Nessus XMLRPC to launch the remote scan
  
• Possibility to select a policy in nessus by the node category
  
• Refactoring of the accounting violations
  
• Refactoring of the captive portal templates generation
  
• trapping.registration now enabled by default
  

Bug Fixes

• Wrong information sent by mail for sponsored registration (#1445)
  
• DHCP listener watch issue fix (#1490)
  

This is a major release with new features and important bug fixes and is considered ready for production use. Upgrading to PacketFence 3.5.0 is advised.

Download PacketFence:

PacketFence 3.5.0 - packetfence-3.5.0.tar.gz

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