PacketFence

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Project Summary

PacketFence is a fully supported, trusted, Free and Open Source network access control (NAC) system. Boasting an impressive feature set including a captive-portal for registration and remediation, centralized wired and wireless management, 802.1X support, layer-2 isolation of problematic devices, integration with the Snort IDS and the Nessus vulnerability scanner; PacketFence can be used to effectively secure networks - from small to very large heterogeneous networks.

In a Nutshell, PacketFence...

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has had 47,526 commits made by 129 contributors
representing 427,164 lines of code
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is mostly written in Perl
with a well-commented source code
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a large development team
with stable Y-O-Y commits
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took an estimated 115 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in April, 2008
ending with its most recent commit 2 days ago

Quick Reference

Project Links:

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Code Locations:

https://github.com/inverse-inc/p...

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Managers:

Francis Lachapelle

Project Security

Vulnerabilities per Version ( last 10 releases )

There are no reported vulnerabilities

Project Vulnerability Report

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Vulnerability Exposure Index

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Few reported vulnerabilities

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