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Bug 82765

Summary: net-misc/packetfence - PacketFence is a fully supported, trusted, Free and Open Source network access control (NAC) solution
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Daniel Black (RETIRED) <dragonheart>
Component: [OLD] ServerAssignee: Default Assignee for New Packages <maintainer-wanted>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: enhancement CC: admin, eltze, netmon, olivier, sgtphou, soulse, Thomas.Doczkal, tsmksubc, webapps-request
Priority: Normal Keywords: EBUILD
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
URL: http://www.packetfence.org/
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Bug Depends on: 435062    
Bug Blocks:    
Attachments: packetfench-1.4.3.ebuild

Description Daniel Black (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-02-20 23:03:23 UTC
PacketFence provides for the following:
Passive or in-line operation
Network registration
Worm/Bot detection/isolation
User-directed mitigation
Proactive vulnerability scans

(Lance - for you)
Comment 1 Lance Albertson (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-02-21 05:25:26 UTC
I can certainly use this at where I work, but unfortunately I have other priorities I have to take care of first. If I get around to it I'll let you know, but anyone is free to try and make it!

Cheers
Comment 2 Lance Albertson (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-02-21 08:13:27 UTC
Created attachment 51788 [details]
packetfench-1.4.3.ebuild

Very rough draft for the ebuild (non-working). Looks like we're going to have
to add a few perl modules into portage on this. I already pinged mcummings
about that. I need to get back to my real work, so it'll have to wait.
Comment 3 Markus Ullmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-10-08 10:51:19 UTC
Still interest in this one?
Comment 4 Markus Ullmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-02-15 23:04:07 UTC
seems no interest left
Comment 5 Christopher Terry 2008-09-30 00:18:17 UTC
(In reply to comment #4)
> seems no interest left
> 

Definitely some interest.  I've got a friend who runs 50-100 person LAN Parties who'd like easier/more centralized control over the network.

My (OS Friendly) company is looking into implementing something like this for troublesome clients with users that like to "enhance" their networks.
Comment 6 Dan Coats 2009-04-16 17:16:54 UTC
someone please reopen this request, It would be great to have a working ebuild, Im ready to implement this NAC at our hospital, would rather do it Gentoo/src than the vmware image. packetfence has come a long way. There are still some perl packages that will need to be added to portage as well.
Comment 7 Daniel Black (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-04-17 13:14:42 UTC
interest exists
Comment 8 Thomas Doczkal 2012-09-14 17:29:09 UTC
Definitely interest still exists.

PacketFence is 3.5.1 now.

------SNIP---------
The latest version of PacketFence is 3.5.1, which has been released on 2012-09-05. This version is considered stable and can be used in production environments.
------SNIP---------

I know it might be to early to note this....