Download PacketFence 8.2.0

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† finger bank and vlan isolation, which allows a network device to be placed in the correct vlan after analysis. The developers have released version 8.2.0:

New Features

• Added support for clusters with servers located in multiple layer 3 networks (PR #3656)
• Permit incoming Eduroam TLRS RADIUS requests (PR #3399)
• pfconfig is tenant aware (PR #3385)
• Realm are tenant scoped (PR #3385)
• Added Mojo web authentication support (PR #3604)
• New authentication source Password of the Day (PR #3285)
• Added SMTP test function in Alerting (PR #3642)
• Juniper SRX Firewall SSO module (PR #2842)

Enhancements

• Now support CoA on Meraki switches
• jsonrpc requests send the current tenant_id (#3271)
• Take the tenant id into consideration in the queue (#3269)
• Performed various improvements to the maintenance script (PR #3445)
• Increased maximum node bandwidth balance from 4 GB to 18.4467441 XB (exabytes) (#3477) (PR #3493)
• Improve connection profile’s advanced filter
• Use MySQL as backend for pfdhcp options (deprecates etcd) (PR #3484)
• Reorder iptables rules (PR #3463)
• Better error handling for pfdetect.conf (PR #3607)
• HAProxy stats files are now located in var/run/ with explicit filenames (PR #3645)
• pfdns now uses the PacketFence standard Golang logging library (PR #3638)
• Added VOIP and Downloadable ACLs support to Aruba 5400 switch module (PR #3372)
• Switch filters can now be used to override the switch module that is instantiated during a RADIUS connection (PR #3583)
• WIRED_MAC_AUTH and Ethernet-NoEAP merged (#3069) (PR #3261)

Bug Fixes

• Backslash in usernames in Reports section is shown as “=5C” (#3508) (PR #3510)
• Multiple bug fixes to the pfdhcp service (PR #3571)
• Domain join log entries contain clear-text credentials (#3448)
• Fixed false positive dhcp rogue detection (PR #3514)
• Sponsor Email subject and body are i18n in the same language (#3670)
• pfstats hammers pfdhcp and the API frontend with requests (#3634)
• Can’t download SAML metadata in the admin (#3720)