Thanks for the response. I will definitely give pfsense a try then.  It seems as though it is what I have been looking for.  Now all I got to do is find the time to try it out hehe.

@hoba:

squid won't work with captive portal currently. It has been discussed somewhere else. Please search.

when I had one own server and so when I didn't use carp I used captive portal and squid and all works fine …  But I 'm going to search

Also check the state tables.  How many states are active to the captive portal.

I have found a lot of environments that have viruses and such that are making outbound port 80 connections that end up getting sent to the captive portal.  What this does is overwhelm the machine due to the amount of requests a second that some viruses attempt.

If you find that clients are making too many requests a second limit the client connection count in the Captive Portal settings screen.

hi

thanks for the quick reply, i am thinking of:

using ignore unknown clients in dhcp change the ip of my dsl router

i think his desktop is going directly to my dsl router since it has the same ip of his ap gateway, that's why the desktop surf much slower than the laptop which is ps box as gateway unlike the desktop using the ap as gateway . so may be changing my dsl router's ip helps, ill try that one

and btw ya chady i am running squid in transparent mode, i try what u said, i think it doesn't work.

I can tell you to look in /var/log/portalauth…its a good starting point

Why did you do it that complicated? You can upload the custum cp elements via the webgui? Also the rtoot password can be changed at system>general (root has the password of the webgui admin user).

Thanks for your reply, but I wounder how to do it, what attributes do I need to maintain in radius server, and how to build a php page that shows such information after a user log out?

your help is much appreciated

Regards
bassam

it is really faster …

Would do but as it is a CD version I am using the .iso.gz (2007-Mar-25 14:03:52) and it currently fails to mount the file system part way through the boot.

Don't know whether this is linked with the nice warning at the top of the forum, something I have done incorrectly or a bug.

You can with PHP.

hoo boy, that did it!  Not sure why I didn't think of that, but no more problems for the last hour or so.  Thanks again

"This setting limits the number of concurrent connections to the captive portal HTTP(S) server. This does not set how many users can be logged in to the captive portal, but rather how many users can load the portal page or authenticate at the same time! Default is 4 connections per client IP address, with a total maximum of 16 connections."

Look at the date.  That files is rebuilt hourly but we only bump the version weekly or so.

Thank you guys my problem is solved :)

Shouldnt be a problem.  I run a site with much more ppl.

Thanks, this should be fixed now.

@DanielSHaischt:

RTFM  ;D

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fetch&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE&format=html

He is "too lazy" to read a manual.  He wants everyone to spoon feed him so he doesn't have to "lift a finger"

:rolls eyes: