PacketFence v3.5 Released
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.
Changelog v3.5
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)
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