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, powerful BYOD management options, 802.1X support, layer-2 isolation of problematic devices; PacketFence can be used to effectively secure networks small to very large heterogeneous networks.
Here are the changes in 4.3.0:
New Features
- Added MAC authentication support for Edge-corE 4510
- Added support for Ruckus External Captive Portal
- Support for Huawei S2700, S3700, S5700, S6700, S7700, S9700 switches
- Added support for LinkedIn and Windows Live as authentication sources
- Support for 802.1X on Juniper EX2200 and EX4200 switches
- Added support for the Netgear M series switches
- Added support to define SNAT interface to use for passthrough
- Added Nessus scan policy based on a DHCP fingerprint
- Added support to unregister a node if the username is locked or deleted in Active Directory
- Fortinet FortiGate and PaloAlto firewalls integration
- New configuration parameters in switches.conf to use mapping by VLAN and/or mapping by role
Enhancements
- When validating an email confirmation code, use the same portal profile initially used by to register the device
- Removed old iptables code (ipset is now always used for inline enforcement)
- MariaDB support
- Updated WebAPI method
- Use Webservices parameters from PacketFence configuration
- Use WebAPI notify from pfdhcplistener (faster)
- Improved Apache SSL configuration forbids SSLv2 use and prioritzes better ciphers
- Removed CGI-based captive portal files
- For device registration use the source used to authenticate for calculating the role and unregdate (bugid:1805)
- For device registration, we set the "NOTES" field of the node with the selected type of device (if defined)
- On status page check the portal associated to the user and authenticate on the sources included in the portal profile
- Merge pf::email_activation and pf::sms_activation to pf::activation
- Removed unused table switchlocation
- Deauthentication and firewall enforcement can now be done throught the web API
- Added support to configure high-availability from within the configurator/webadmin
- Changed the way we’re handling DNS blackholing when unregistered in inline enforcement mode (using DNAT rather than REDIRECT)
- Now handling rogue DHCP servers based both on the server IP and server MAC address
Bug Fixes
- Fixed pfdetectd not starting because of stale pid file
- Fixed SQL join with iplog in advanced search of nodes
- Fixed unreg date calculation in Catalyst captive portal
- Fixed allowed_device_types array in device registration page (bugid:1809)
- Fixed VLAN format to comply with RFC 2868
- Fixed possible double submission of the form on the billing page
- Fixed db upgrade script to avoid duplicate changes to locationlog table
See the ChangeLog file for the complete list of changes.
See the UPGRADE file for notes about upgrading.
