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      philiptoronto last edited by

      Hello All,

      Does anyone know the limit on concurrent captive portal users?

      I went through an old posting back to 2007 about this, it was saying there was a limit as 54 users, which means after 54 users were authenticated by captive portal successfully, the 55th users can not login via captive portal / or the firewall will block the 55th user.

      I am using version 2.4.2 now, does anyone know this limit was lifted in the recent versions?

      Your input is much appreciated!

      Philip

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      • Derelict
        Derelict LAYER 8 Netgate last edited by

        I ran a CP node with thousands of simultaneous CP users. I don't think there is a limit other than RAM, subnet size, etc.

        Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
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          philiptoronto last edited by

          Thank you Derelict for your quick response!

          Can I know how you set up your user database? There are multiple options here, user manager (which I do not think it is proper), FreeRadius3 integrated inside PFsense or an external Radius?

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          • Derelict
            Derelict LAYER 8 Netgate last edited by

            Didn't. It was a no-auth setup.

            But I would probably use an OFF-FIREWALL RADIUS configuration backed by SQL or LDAP.

            Really depends on how many users and how you're going to be managing them.

            If it is more than a few, just pretend the local user database doesn't exist. It will probably not scale.

            Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
            The pfSense Book is free of charge!
            DO NOT set a source port in a port forward or firewall rule unless you KNOW you need it!
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            • Gertjan
              Gertjan last edited by

              Not thousands, just 30 - 50 users. Local user database.
              Soft time out 1 hour - hard time out 6 hours.
              3 AP"s
              pfSense running on an old Dell Dimension 5150.
              No fanny setup - no 'big' packages.

              Never saw more then 5 % processor load - basically, it's doing nothing except when I'm playing with the GUI  ;)

              No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum.

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