We started to look at PacketFence but before even getting to test it Cisco released ISE and then we switched to kicking the tires on that. Though I know some universities use PacketFence quite successfully, for all the strengths of the open source way the hassles of it in a product like that (poor documentation and such) are significant depending on how your IT staff is structured and their goals. The well-known tradeoffs between commercial products with good documentation and support and a do-it-yourself approach has ramifications that reach down even to staffing and turnover. Anyway, there were some portal limitations in ISE 1.0 such that we weren't happy with the usability so we decided to wait for the next release. It appears from the documentation that 1.1 may have dealt with these so we'll start testing that version soon.
I have seen people talking about the high cost of ISE, but ISE base without the posture checking is quite reasonable. I think if you aren't doing posture checking or enforcing remediation anymore with your NAC solution or intending to do it with PacketFence I think ISE base should be the price comparison rather than the much more expensive ISE advanced add-on or whatever the name. From what I can see ISE is now very feature rich in regard to guest registration, though we've not used it in production yet. Mark On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 7:16 AM, Johnson, Neil M <neil-john...@uiowa.edu>wrote: > I would be interested in talking to anyone about their experiences using > packetfence (http://www.packetfence.org) to register guest users on their > wireless network. > > Thanks. > -Neil > > -- > Neil Johnson > Network Engineer > The University of Iowa > Phone: 319 384-0938 > Fax: 319 335-2951 > Mobile: 319 540-2081 > E-Mail: neil-john...@uiowa.edu > > ********** > Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent > Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
