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Re: NAC devices - opinions sought
From: Jeff Murphy <jcmurphy () BUFFALO EDU>
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 21:33:47 -0500
David Boyer wrote:
Anyone familiar with Ciscos Network Admission Control (formerly Cisco Clean Access, formerly Perfigo), Juniper Infranet, Symantec Network Access Control or similar software/appliances? Like many schools, we have a 1:1 ration of computers to students. We'd like to avoid letting vulnerable or malware-infected systems onto our network while simultaneously addressing the infection or vulnerability. Almost all of our systems are running Windows XP or Windows 2000. I'd be interested in hearing about your experiences with these or similar solutions. Any open-source solutions that you know of?
Opensource: Packetfence www.packetfence.org NetPass netpass.sf.net FreeNAC www.freenac.net We use NetPass to control an 8000+ user resnet. It's been in place for 2-3 years or so and works fine. Some features are: load-balanced HA, config'd entirely thru webui, day to day management of the system can be delegated out, api for automated control so other automatic processes can quarantine users (snort, etc). Primarily our helpdesk folks interact with the system and the network group rarely has to touch it. jeff
Current thread:
- NAC devices - opinions sought David Boyer (Feb 16)
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- Re: NAC devices - opinions sought Michael Cole (Feb 16)
- Re: NAC devices - opinions sought Charlie Prothero (Feb 16)
- Re: NAC devices - opinions sought David Boyer (Feb 16)
- Re: NAC devices - opinions sought Jeff Murphy (Feb 16)
- Re: NAC devices - opinions sought Cal Frye (Feb 16)
- Re: NAC devices - opinions sought Brian T Nichols (Feb 17)
- Re: NAC devices - opinions sought Conor McGrath (Feb 17)
- Re: NAC devices - opinions sought Brian T Nichols (Feb 17)
- Re: NAC devices - opinions sought Barros, Jacob (Feb 19)
- NAC devices - opinions sought Chris Harrington (Feb 19)
- Re: NAC devices - opinions sought Walter E. Petruska (Feb 19)
- Re: NAC devices - opinions sought David Gillett (Feb 20)
- Re: NAC devices - opinions sought John (Feb 20)
- Re: NAC devices - opinions sought Brian Friday (Feb 20)
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