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they're no longer maintained, are deprecated or so on.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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