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PacketFence v3.1 Released

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 2, 2012

[ Thanks to Ludovic
Marcotte
for this link. ]

“This is a major release with big features, new hardware
support, enhancements, bug fixes and updated translations. Here are
the changes since 3.1.0:

New Features:
Statement of Health (SoH) support for reliable client-side policy
compliance through 802.1X
Detection of rogue DHCP Servers even behind relays (#1151)
RFC3576 (RADIUS Change of Authorization / Disconnect) support
added
Preview support for wired port-bounce on Cisco through CoA
(RFC3576). Disabled by default.
Wireless profile provisioning for iPhone, iPods, and iPads
devices
SNMP traps rate-limiting mechanism
New graphs in the web admin UI — replaced jpgraph (PHP) by
gRaphael (JavaScript)

Enhancements:
Using HTTP Return Code 501 “Not Implemented” for more effective
client blocking
Startup performance improvements
Added support for session-keyfile introduced in BIND 9.7
(#1257)
Several improvements in the dhcp_dumper.pl addon
Global option to disable rogue DHCP server detection
Performance improvements to pfdhcplistener
More startup validation on SNMPv3 Trap configuration
CentOS 6.2 support
Several new HTTP User-Agents detected
Several new DHCP fingerprints (from our spinoff
www.fingerbank.org)
Better support of WISPr (captive portal detection)
Configuration flag to disable the captive portal’s network
detection feature
Added support for months in normalize_time (#1291)””

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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