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Concepts

Purpose

PacketFence (PF) is a wrapper as well as provides extra features for FreeRadius.  It provides a UI that is used to manage FreeRadius modules but does not map 1 to 1 with FreeRadius config settings.  It is abstracted a layer above to make management easier.  Much of the flow of FreeRadius is

Flow of a Request

The primary concept of PacketFence (PF) is that it provides 

 

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