State Tables - Hardware Help - Newb

[joshhboss]

So this new project i have that set me off to try and build my own Pfsense router has me excited but a lot to learn. First off this is for an event that could have up to 10,000 wireless cleints. Now i was able to get my hands on a dell r210.

And im getting 32 gigs of ram in by friday.
What i was wondering if these hard ware specs (cpu in image and 32 gigs of ram, also have a quad gig nic coming and also a quad gig/10gig ethernet sfp card coming)
would be enough to handle this. a few really large subnets.
And i was wondering if there were any best practice advice about how to handle state tables or how big the state table size should be (and i dont even know how to adjust it if needed) but if anything else besides that. I would love the insight.
I dont know where i saw that if the state table gets full that traffic no longer routes. and with that many clients i want to know how to make sure that i dont run into that problem.

This is a big learning experience and i look forward to the challenges and appreciate all the help i can get.,

Thank you!!

[Gertjan]

@joshhboss

Most of these questions can be checked, just look at the system in place right now ;)
As networks like "10k" don't fall out of the sky, are not created from scratch today.
Or are you really implementing a "hotspot Wifi network" on a "new aero port" or very big school or company, with nothing in place at the moment ?

You probably want to double the system to make a HA set-up,and both really to be identical from a hardware perspective. Use you current system as a test-bed for updates and spare.

The system you propose shouldn't be the first bottleneck you'll find ;)