Developers guide

Chapter 3

System Requirements 8

∏ Intel or AMD CPU 3 GHz

∏ 4 GB of RAM

∏ 100 GB of disk space (RAID-1 recommended)

∏ 1 Network card

∏ +1 for high-availability

∏ +1 for intrusion detection

Operating System Requirements

PacketFence supports the following operating systems on the i386 or x86_64 architectures:

∏ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x Server

∏ Community ENTerprise Operating System (CentOS) 6.x

∏ Debian 7.0 (Wheezy)

∏ Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Make sure that you can install additional packages from your standard distribution. For example, if you

are using Red Hat Enterprise Linux, you have to be subscribed to the Red Hat Network before continuing

with the PacketFence software installation.

Other distributions such as Fedora and Gentoo are known to work but this document doesn’t cover them.

Services start-up

PacketFence takes care of handling the operation of the following services:

∏ Web server (httpd)

∏ DHCP server (dhcpd)

∏ FreeRADIUS server (radiusd)

∏ Snort/Suricata Network IDS (snort/suricata)

∏ Firewall (iptables)

Make sure that all the other services are automatically started by your operating system!