PacketFence Zero Effort NAC (ZEN) consists of a fully installed and preconfigured version of PacketFence 1.9.0 inside a VMWare image. The ZEN edition of PacketFence allows you to rapidly get PacketFence running in your network environment.
=== What is PacketFence ? === PacketFence is an open-source network access control (NAC) system which provides an impressive list of supported features. Among them, there are : * Registration using a captive portal * Detection of abnormal network activities using Snort * Proactive vulnerability scans using Nessus * Isolation of problematic devices * Remediation through a captive portal * 802.1X for wired and wireless networks * Wireless integration for all provided features * DHCP fingerprinting and more! A set of screenshots demonstrating PacketFence is available from http://www.packetfence.org/tour/screenshots.html and a set of videos is available from http://www.packetfence.org/tour/videos.html === Changes Since Previous Release === PacketFence ZEN 1.9.0 is a major release bringing new features, new hardware support, several enhancements, improvements to documentation and a load of small fixes. It includes: * Improvements of PacketFence 1.9.0 * Updated the base operating system with all available security updates * Bug fixes: #1017, #990, #904, #924 For the complete list of changes in PacketFence 1.9.0 see http://www.packetfence.org/en/news/2010/article/packetfence-190-released.html. === 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 : http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/packetfence/packetfence-1.9.0.tar.gz?download or by getting the sources from the official monotone server using the instructions at http://www.packetfence.org/development/source_code_repository.html Documentation about the installation and configuration of PacketFence is available from : http://www.packetfence.org/download/documentation.html === How Can I Help ? === PacketFence is a collaborative effort in order to create the best Free and Open Source NAC solution. There are multiple ways you can contribute to the project : * Documentation reviews, enhancements and translations * Feature requests or by sharing your ideas * Participate in the discussion on mailing lists (http://www.packetfence.org/support/community.html) * Patches for bugs or enhancements * Provide new translations of remediation pages === Getting Support === For any questions, do not hesitate to contact us by writing to supp...@inverse.ca You can also fill our online form (http://www.inverse.ca/about/contact.html) and a representative from Inverse will contact you. Inverse offers professional services to organizations willing to secure their wired and wireless networks with the PacketFence solution. Have a good one! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Packetfence-devel mailing list Packetfence-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/packetfence-devel
