Download PacketFence 3.0.3

An NAC system can be used to secure a network environment. This allows network devices to be automatically blocked, based on pre-set policies, if an undesirable situation occurs. Think of unknown network devices of visitors, a worm that is trying to spread or an authorized device that is equipped with a different operating system via a boot flop or live CD. PacketFence is one such nac system with support for 802.1x and vlan isolation, which allows a network device to be placed in the correct vlan after analysis. For more information, please refer to this page. The developers have released version 3.0.3 with the following announcement:

PacketFence 3.0.3 released

A minor release bringing performance improvement, new hardware support, some enhancements, important bug fixes and updated translations.

Ready for production use. Here are the changes since 3.0.3:

New Hardware Support

• Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switches in Port Security
• HP Procurve 5400 now supporting mac auth and 802.1x (with VoIP)

Enhancements

• Performance improvement under stressed workloads
• Translatable remediation templates (if a translated version exists, it’ll override the default)
• Guest management interface can be translated
• More documentation for service watch
• Eliminated some unncessary warnings
• Better help in the web admin UI
• Added a new addon: import-node-csv.pl – bulk node import tool
• Added a new addon: network-save-configs.pl – saves configs (write mem) for the whole network (only Cisco for now)

Bug Fixes

• 802.1X broken on Cisco Catalyst 3750 (#1286)
• Pop-Up windows are too small (#1078)
• RedHat Enterprise Linux 6 installation instructions
• Encoding on the remediation pages and on the release pages (scan, access enabled)
• SNMPv3 issues affecting all the Cisco wired product line (#1284)
• Allow incoming DHCP on management interface to track users IPs in production VLANs (as opposed to DNS added in 3.0.2)
• Node add silently fails on the Web Admin if a node already exists
• Error reporting in Web Admin breaks layout (#1290)
• Captive portal presentation glitch on the scan in progress page
• Email activation regression (#1328)
• alerting.fromaddr visible from Web Admin (#1333)
• Inline mode regression if you don’t do VLAN enforcement at the same time (#1325)
• Avoiding missing session variables in SMS activation
• DHCP analysis on RedHat Enterprise Linux 6 (#1336)
• Disabling email guests would prevent sms guest registration

translations

• Minor update to French (fr) translation
• Updated Spanish (es) translation (Thanks to Juan Camilo Valencia)

…and more. See the ChangeLog file for the complete list of changes and the UPGRADE file for notes about upgrading. Both files are in the PacketFence distribution.

Happy upgrading!