Download Packetfence 1.7.2

A nac system can be used, among other things, to secure a network environment. This allows you to automatically block network devices when an undesirable situation occurs according to preset policies. Think of unknown network devices of visitors, a worm that tries to spread or even an authorized device that has been provided with a different operating system via a bootflop or live CD. Packetfence is one such nac system with support for 802.1x and recently too vlan isolation, which allows a network device to be placed in the correct vlan after analysis. The developers have released version 1.7.2 of Packetfence with the following list of fixes:

Version 1.7.2:

• added RHEL5 to supported operating systems
• stopped to distribute jpgraph with PF; the installer will now download jpgraph
• `pfcmd service pf status` now indicates
• if service should be started according to configuration file
• all pids (in case several processes are running)
• clean PID files in /usr/local/pf/var when necessary after service stop
• unified pfcmd service and pfcmd control
• replaced bin/pfwatcher with pfcmd service pf watch
• added trapping.redirlocal parameter which is used by bin/ip2interface.pl
• removed conf/ssl/server.crt and conf/ssl/server.key from distribution and added code to generate them to installer.pl
• added DHCP fingerprint update to configurator.pl
• configurator.pl reference to registration.authentication
• port 162 is opened on internal interface instead of management interface
• removed configurator.pl reference to arp.listendevice
• perl-IPTables-IPv4 conflicts with PacketFence RPM
• added authorizedips variable to each interface to customize IPTables rules
• representation of adjustswitchportvlan reasons in web admin GUI
• default values ​​for multi config options are correctly shown in web admin GUI
• added functionality to reset switch ports in case of disaster
• parse for local trap OID instead of only 127.0.0.1
• iptables FORWARD ACCEPT chains in passive mode
• wrong comparison in iplog_cleanup_sql
• VLAN isolation should verify violation action parameter
• support for linkup/linkdown traps on HP switches
• administration/adduser.php – alignment of version information