Manuel: First, welcome to the PacketFence community!
Check the packetFence website about your hardware, if the hardware you are looking for is not listed email inverse (the company that makes PacketFence) and they may be able to give you more info. To answer your question about PacketFence (PF) being able to defend against MAC spoofing, the answer is ... not directly. PF is for Network Access Control, and is not overly concerned with security. However, this does not mean the PF is insecure! It just means that dealing with MAC spoofing and other security concerns is not directly the responsibility of PF. PF pairs with several other free open source technologies that are designed specifically to address security concerns on the network. When you couple these technologies with PacketFence you are able to effectively mitigate MAC spoofing as well as just about any other network based threat you can think of. To answer your question about PF sending an email when a cable is unplugged, the answer is, I do not know for sure but I do not think so. The problem is that physical topology changes to the network are handled by a different OSI layer than the one that PF normally uses. That is not to say that you could not fairly easily make such a feature if you wanted to, but you would want to seriously investigate why you want such a feature. What problem are you trying to solve? Is there another way to address the problem. If you want to receive an email from PF when a cable is connected / disconnected you should be happy to learn the since PF is open source. You are free to make the feature, and since PF is mostly done in the Perl programming language it is very easy to get started doing custom code. Good luck! And, please feel free to post your questions to this list. Jake Sallee Godfather of Bandwidth System Engineer University of Mary Hardin-Baylor 900 College St. Belton, Texas 76513 Fone: 254-295-4658 Phax: 254-295-4221 ________________________________________ From: manuel spraul [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2014 11:08 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [PacketFence-users] Question about Packetfence Hello I am a student and I will deploy PacketFence in a company. I turn to you for various question: is PacketFence 4.1.0 compatible with the following network equipment: - Hp 5308 XL - Dell 5558.5548, 6224 - Clavister sg 3200 Is packetfense is robust against spoofing MAC address ? Is packetfense can evoyer emails alert when a network cable is physically disconnected ? thank you your return ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Flow-based real-time traffic analytics software. Cisco certified tool. Monitor traffic, SLAs, QoS, Medianet, WAAS etc. with NetFlow Analyzer Customize your own dashboards, set traffic alerts and generate reports. Network behavioral analysis & security monitoring. All-in-one tool. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=126839071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ PacketFence-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/packetfence-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Flow-based real-time traffic analytics software. Cisco certified tool. Monitor traffic, SLAs, QoS, Medianet, WAAS etc. with NetFlow Analyzer Customize your own dashboards, set traffic alerts and generate reports. Network behavioral analysis & security monitoring. All-in-one tool. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=126839071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ PacketFence-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/packetfence-users
