PacketFence

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PacketFence
Developer(s) Community headed by Inverse Inc.
Initial releaseDecember 22, 2004 (2004-12-22)
Stable release
14.0.0 / September 6, 2024;2 months ago (2024-09-06)
Repository
Written in Perl, Golang, JavaScript
Operating system Linux
Size 14.2MB
Type Network access control
License GNU General Public License
Website packetfence.org

PacketFence is an open-source network access control (NAC) system that provides the following features: registration, detection of abnormal network activities, proactive vulnerability scans, isolation of problematic devices, remediation through a captive portal, 802.1X, wireless integration and User-Agent / DHCP fingerprinting.

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The company that develops PacketFence, Inverse Inc. was acquired by Akamai Technologies on February 1, 2021. [1]

PacketFence version 10 supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and its derivatives, notably CentOS, and Debian Stretch. Inverse Inc. has also been releasing a version of PacketFence dubbed the "Zero Effort NAC", which is a standalone Virtual Appliance that is preconfigured installation of PacketFence, making it easier than ever to deploy a NAC in your environment.

PacketFence version 11 added support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and it's derivatives, notably CentOS, and Debian Bullseye.


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References

  1. "Akamai Technologies, Inc. Acquires Inverse". www.packetfence.org. Retrieved 2021-06-22.