PacketFence 1.8.4 released

July 17, 2009

The Inverse Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of PacketFence 1.8.4. This is a maintenance release of PacketFence which focuses on stability and includes many bug fixes and several small enhancements.

It’s now possible to :

• generate violations on MAC vendors (to ban a device category)
• generate violations on Web browser’s User-Agent information (to ban a browser)
• specify a VLAN for violations (node with this violation will be put in the specified VLAN)

It also includes support for new networking equipment :

• Aruba Networks wireless controllers
• Foundry (Brocade) FastIron 4802
• 3COM 4200G
• D-Link DES-3526 (in the Web interface)

See the CHANGES files in the PacketFence distribution for a complete list of changes.