Hello Marco,

Do you have a proxy between packetfence and the internet ?
It sounds to me to be an external issue to packetfence.

Regards
Fabrice



Le jeu. 18 avr. 2024 à 08:35, Laboratorio Tronic via PacketFence-users <
packetfence-users@lists.sourceforge.net> a écrit :

> Hello hive mind,
>      I'm not sure about how this kind of communication works but I'll
> give it a try.
> I'm coming from a painful experience with pfSense, being a newbie in the
> firewall/Nac field, took me ages to setup the software like I wanted it
> to work (considering the whole project is a non-profit one for a natural
> park I volunteer for, where a messed up network is already in place and
> I don't have much manoeuvring space to change it).
> Only AFTER I had it set up, I discovered the self-registration plugin
> for the captive portal is no longer unmaintained/working, so I thought
> I'd replace it all with PacketFence, which seems to have all I need.
>
> MY HARDWARE (for testing):
> - Intel Core i3 (2cores/4threads) 2,7GHz.
> - 8GB DDR4 RAM
> - 128GB SSD
> - 1 integrated Realtek Gigabit NIC
> - 2 PCIeX Intel Gigabit NICs (one of which linked to the router)
>
> WHAT I TRIED:
> - burning the ver.13 ISO on a disk and installing from scratch. -> in
> the middle of installation it doesn't find the repositories, no matter
> which country/preset I input..even inputting them manually will not
> work. Ignoring this step will led to the impossibility to retrieve the
> public key and continue installation. "Select and install software" step
> won't complete and stop the whole process.
>
> - installing Debian first and then following the guide on the site to
> install packetfence on it. -> Debian deployment goes well but the last
> step of the guide will not work: when I apt get install packetfence it
> says many packets are damaged/blocked, repositories won't contain them,
> they're no longer maintained, are deprecated or so on. Tried finding and
> installing all the packets manually but no luck so far.
>
> - Downloading the ZEN VM and launching it on VmWare player. -> boots up
> and then says to connect to an IP address which isn't even on the same
> subnet and anyway won't show any page when fetched by the browser.
>
> I'm really frustrated because every review/comment about PacketFence
> seems at least satisfied, if not enthusiastic..and I can't even get
> started.
> Anyone can help?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Marco
>
>
>
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