[pfSense] pfSense Hardware Sizing Captive Portal Usage

2015-05-27 Thread Emeric Jarnier / DSI 


Hello everyone,

I am looking ahead to deploy pfSense for a few hundred of concurrent users 
in a captive portal usage.


According to hardware requirements and sizing available on the internet, 
it is possible to have some idea of some hardware configuration.

Problem is, we don't have many tips regarding 'states table' usage.
If some of you guys could give us some feedback regarding these aspect, we 
would really appreciate your help!
Anything like a number of states per captive portal user session would be 
great. Il could help us to estimate our maximum number of simultaneous 
users with a given amount of memory..


I did some tests in a lab and got over 2 000 opened states for a portal 
captive user but it cannot be as good as some real production numbers!


Thanks for your answers!

Regards,

Emeric Jarnier

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Re: [pfSense] pfSense Hardware Sizing Captive Portal Usage

2015-05-27 Thread Mehma Sarja 
In my experience at home, Windows users consume up to a couple of thousand
states streaming Indian soap operas. Whereas korean soap opera streaming on
Mac books take a tenth of that with adblock.

I guess my point is state count depends upon what your users are doing.

Yudhvir
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Re: [pfSense] pfSense Hardware Sizing Captive Portal Usage

2015-05-27 Thread Adam Thompson 
More or less: if you can run pfSense at all, you won't run out of memory for 
state tables.
Captive portal does consume additional memory, but not large amounts.
For several hundred users behind a captive portal, I would err on the side if 
caution and use a system with at least 2GB of RAM, preferably 4GB.
The ram requirement depends more on what else you have running inside pfSense 
than the # of users.
One user running bittorrent can potentially create tens of thousands of states, 
whereas one user browsing the web isn't likely to create more than 10 or 20 at 
a time (maybe a few hundred if you don't close states aggressively).
-Adam

On May 27, 2015 7:39:44 AM CDT, Emeric Jarnier / DSI 
emeric.jarn...@univ-smb.fr wrote:

 Hello everyone,

I am looking ahead to deploy pfSense for a few hundred of concurrent
users 
in a captive portal usage.

According to hardware requirements and sizing available on the
internet, 
it is possible to have some idea of some hardware configuration.
Problem is, we don't have many tips regarding 'states table' usage.
If some of you guys could give us some feedback regarding these aspect,
we 
would really appreciate your help!
Anything like a number of states per captive portal user session would
be 
great. Il could help us to estimate our maximum number of simultaneous 
users with a given amount of memory..

I did some tests in a lab and got over 2 000 opened states for a portal

captive user but it cannot be as good as some real production numbers!

Thanks for your answers!

Regards,

Emeric Jarnier

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