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
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> 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.
>
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