Netgate 1537 with 32 gigs of Ram
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Ive been glancing over this document. https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/hardware/tune.html#intel-ix-4-cards
Im using this Router for the first time at an event where I expect to get around 4000 or more clients connected to it. Possibly around 6000. I was wondering if out of the box this router can handle that or if I should be trying to enable some of suggestions here for hardware offloading. If im presenting the question poorly or need to add details please let me know. Just getting my feet wet with Netgate and Pfsense.
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Total number of users is only really an issue if you're using something like Captive Portal. Otherwise the total bandwidth is usually the limiting factor.
Steve
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@joshhboss
Can you provide us with more details please?
WAN Bandwith, are they all WiFi Users? Which switches
and other hardware will be in game here? What packet
you want to install on your pfSense? Squid, pfblockerNG,
Snort, Captive Portal with voucher system and radius certificate,.......Or do you only have 2 GBit/s WAN lines and wan to connect all users over WiFi and LAN into some VLANs
and the firewall do the routing job?Please don`t get me wrong here, but if you have stacked (ring) Layer3 switches and also core Switches plus one
or more WiFi controllers and pfSense do only the firewall job all will be fine here for 4000 - 6000 users.
