NEWS

21 09 2011

PacketFence 3.0 released

The Inverse Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of PacketFence 3.0. This is a major release bringing new hardware support, new features, enhancements, bug fixes and new translations. This release is considered ready for production use.

What is PacketFence?

PacketFence is a fully supported, trusted, Free and Open Source network access control (NAC) system. Boosting 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 provides an impressive list of supported features. Among them, there are :

  • Registration of network components through a captive portal
  • Automatic isolation, if desired, of unwanted devices such as Apple iPod, Sony PlayStation, wireless access points and more
  • Instant stopping of computer worms or virus propagation
  • Blocking of attacks on your servers or other network components
  • Compliance for computers present on your network (software installed, particular configurations, etc.)

PacketFence is an unobtrusive solution that works with equipment from many vendors (wired or wireless) such as Cisco, Aruba, Nortel, Hewlett-Packard, Foundry, Enterasys, Accton/Edge-corE/SMC, 3Com, D-Link, Intel, Dell and many more.

New release!

More information about this release is available in the official release announcement [External] on the PacketFence website.

Getting PacketFence

PacketFence is free software and is distributed under the GNU GPL. As such, you are free to download and try it by either getting the new release from our download page [External] or by getting the sources from the source code repository [External].

Documentation about the installation and configuration of PacketFence is available under the Documentation [External] section of the website.

How Can I Help?

PacketFence is a collaborative effort in order to create the best Free and Open Source NAC solution. Please get involved in our community [External] and consider contributing [External]!

Getting Support

Community [External] or commercial [External] support is available for PacketFence depending on your needs.

Enjoy PacketFence at its finest!

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