<[email protected]> wrote: > > The short answer with PF is always: ³Yes.² You can extend PF > to do ANYTHING but if what you are trying to do seems extraordinarily > hard, you may want to step back and ask if what you are doing is > really a function of NAC or is it something else?
The great thing about open-source software is that you can customize it to do whatever you want. The bad thing about open-source software is that you have to know how to program in whatever language(s) the package was written in to make those changes. In the case of PF, it is a bundle of different open-source packages from different maintainers that they have bundled together to act as a NAC. You need to not only be familiar with PF's code, but how to configure and troubleshoot each of the bundled packages as well. They really don't remind us much on this list, but the maintainers of PF (Inverse) offer consulting services for installing/configuring the software. Since both Inverse and Josh's school are located in Canada, they don't even have to deal with the currency exchange rate hassle. :-) The cat's meow of commercial NAC for academic environments is Impulse Point's Safe-Connect product. It comes with agents for every device that you can think of, and does exactly what Josh is looking for. Large universities love it. The quote that I got from them last year for our 2500 FTE enrollment was 6-digits per year (US), and the annual maintenance would have paid for a 3-series BMW every year. It wouldn't hurt to look at their feature list and ask for a quote, if for no other reason than to put a price tag on your own wish list to see how much getting everything you want will cost. I've already done the math for our site, and the ~40 hours that I have invested in PF to get "close enough" functionality makes it seem like a steal... -Arthur ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Arthur Emerson III Email: [email protected] Network Administrator InterNIC: AE81 Mount Saint Mary College MaBell: (845) 561-0800 Ext. 3109 330 Powell Ave. Fax: (845) 562-6762 Newburgh, NY 12550 SneakerNet: Aquinas Hall Room 11 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Introducing AppDynamics Lite, a free troubleshooting tool for Java/.NET Get 100% visibility into your production application - at no cost. Code-level diagnostics for performance bottlenecks with <2% overhead Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_ap1 _______________________________________________ PacketFence-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/packetfence-users
