It's a P4 2.something, 40gb disk, 1gb ram.
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Chris Flugstad <[email protected]> wrote: > I was going to ask what hardware you were running this on. We have a rather > large list of MAC addresses in our captive portal and it works fine. Its a > dual opteron/4 gigs of ram. Probably overkill, so it wont help you know > what you need, but if your running 128 ram or even 256, its bare bone > minimum. > > Chris Flugstad > Cascadelink > 900 1st ave s, suite 201a > seattle, wa 98134 > p: 206.774.3660 | f: 206.577.5066 > [email protected] > > RB wrote: > > On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 15:55, Tim Dressel <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 1. What is the limitation on the number of mac-bypass entries? And is > what I am seeing expected with 300 entries? > > > I'm sure someone will chime in with the precise ipfw limitation, but > this is mostly going to be dependent on your system's performance > specs - memory & CPU. > > > > 2. If I should not be doing this with 300 clients, is anyone using > another FOSS product to do MAC authenticated control outbound from > their firewall? > > > Possibly, but [as I hope you know] MAC filtering only keeps honest > people honest, it is in no way any form of authentication. At that > number of unique users, you may be better served by setting up an > actual RADIUS server to do proper authentication and AAA instead of > manually maintaining tables. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To > unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional > commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - > https://portal.pfsense.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
