Increasing State table size?
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So what ive done is build a pfsense box with some pretty serious specs out of a DellR210. Ive also added a quad 10gig nic - 2 copper and 2 sfp. I mainly got this for a big network that is probably going to have 5 to 15k users. (as long as the wireless gets all the clients connected) <-- thats a whole other challenge.
I also have 32 gigs of ram coming in to add to this. I was wondering if i should change the default state table size to something larger and if so how would i calculate what i should change it too. how often it resets? All of this is still new to me but im eager to learn.
Thank you for any and all insight.
Ive attached a picture of what CPU i currently have.The big network will not really have any firewall rules. Due to my newness with pfsense im still going to use Ubiuqiti edge routers for the production stuff because i know it more. But at this festival they want to open up the wifi to the crowd and it is going to be an event with a lot of people (in florida). So big pools and just all going to the internet. Maybe one rule to block traffic to the router. ![alt text]( image url)
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@joshhboss
Here you will find what you're looking for: Hardware Sizing Guidance.Also you may tune the state expiration time. Look here: Firewall Optimization Options.
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@viragomann came back to this. Thanks again for pointing me in this direction. im so impressed with the pfsense documentation!