I have have been working a few weeks to get PacketFence up, and have run into a multitude of problems:
1.. Installed PacketFence on Debian 7 (because it is the only approved Linux which comes with functioning l2tp tunneling), and setup some l2tp tunnels, but found that PacketFence will only work with physical interfaces. The need for l2tp is that our wireless backbone does not natively pass VLANs and these tunnels will, and the tunnels work on our OpenWRT access points. 2.. Installed PacketFence on Ubuntu 12.04 server, carefully according to the Administration Guide. Came up with many unresolved dependencies during apt-get install packetfence, and I could proceed no further. 3.. PacketFenceZEN_USB-5.1.0 ran the initial configuration once, but starting over after that it would not enter it. It also would not proceed with Install. 4.. Installed PacketFence on Centos 6 minimal, and it came up just fine, completes the initial configuration, and works correctly for a while. But after fiddling with the web configuration and rebooting, packetfence.log has hundreds of the following kinds of errors: Jun 15 15:24:23 pfcmd.pl(1311) ERROR: [1434399863.84992] Failed to connect to config service for namespace interfaces::management_network, retrying (pfconfig::cached::_get_from_socket) (pfconfig::cached::_get_from_socket) At this point mysql IS running, but dhcpd is not. This also probably explains why /usr/local/pf/var/conf/dhcpd.conf was not updated after changes to the Interfaces Configuration, but only after reboot. At this point, the administration GUI will not open, so it is completely hosed. Can only get in with ssh. When these last problems arose, I was trying to setup Inline Layer 3 with the GUI. selinux was disabled and iptables was stopped before installing PacketFence, as per Adminstration Guide. Are my experiences typical or is it just me? Any help would be appreciated.
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